CHAPTER 3
“GENDER
STEREOTYPES
”
Sex
Stereotypes
a generalized view of traits that
should be possessed by men and
women, specifically physical and
emotional roles. They are unrelated
to the roles women and men
actually perform.
Sexual
Stereotypes
involve assumptions regarding a
person’s sexuality that reinforce
dominant views. Like the
assumption that all persons are
only attracted t the sex opposite
theirs.
Sex-role
Stereotypes
the roles that men and women are assigned
based on their sex and what behaviors they
must possess to fulfill these roles.
• They prescribe certain traits, behaviors,
and responsibilities to individuals based on
their assigned sex at birth
Compounded
Stereotypes
• Assumptions about a specific group
belonging to a gender. Examples are young
women, old men, single men, women factory
workers, and the like.
• Compounded stereotypes can also be
influenced by other factors such as age,
sexual orientation, religion, socioeconomic
status, disability, or any other aspect of
one's identity.
What is SOGIE?
SOGIE Stands for Sexual Orientation and Gender
Identity Expression.
❑ Sexual Orientation • Homosexuality • Heterosexuality • Bisexuality
❑ Gender Identity
refers to a person's deeply felt sense of their own gender, which
may or may not correspond with the sex they were assigned at birth.
❑ Expression.
refers to how individuals express their gender identity outwardly
through their appearance, behavior, and mannerisms.
It includes factors such as clothing, hairstyles, speech patterns, body
language, and other forms of self-expression.
Terms Standing for SOGIE
Sexual orientation
❑ Involves the person to whom one is attracted.
❑ One identifies himself or herself in relation to this
attraction.
❑ Includes both romantic and sexual feelings.
Gender Identity
❑ Personal experience of gender or social relation
identifies himself or herself in relation to this attraction.
❑ Identify himself or herself as masculine or feminine.
Gender Expression
❑ expresses his or her sexuality through the actions or
manner of presenting oneself
Gender
Equality
and
Gender Equity
EQUALITY EQUITY
The state or condition that affords ❑ Justice and fairness in the treatment of
women and men equal enjoyment of women and men in order to eventually
human rights, socially valued goods, achieve gender equality,
opportunities, and resources. ❑ often requesting differential treatment
Allowing both sexes the same of women and men (or specific
opportunities and potential to contribute measures) in order to compensate for the
to, and benefit from, all spheres of historical and social disadvantages.
society (economic, political, social, and ❑ prevent women and men from sharing a
cultural level playing field.
Example: A family has limited funds, and Example: Provision of leadership training
both daughter and son need new pair of for women or establishing quotas for
shoes for the new school year, but only one women in decision-making positions to
can get new shoes this year. If the family achieve gender equality.
decides (and who in the family decides?)
which child will get the new shoes based on
the child’s NEED, and not on the child’s sex,
this is an example of gender equality
Transgender
vs
Transsexual
TRANSGENDER TRANSSEXUAL
❑ Refers to those trans people ❑ Refers to people who identify
who live permanently in their entirely with the gender role
preferred gender, without opposite to the sex assigned at
necessarily needing to undergo birth and seek to live permanently
any medical intervention/s. in the preferred gender role.
❑ Transsexual people might intend
to undergo, are undergoing, or
have undergone gender
reassignment treatment (which
may or may not involve hormone
therapy or surgery).
Gender GAP
and
Patterns of
Gender
Inequalities
Gender Gap
Difference in any area
between women and men in
terms of their levels of
participation.
Access to resources, rights,
power, and influence,
remuneration, and benefits.
Patterns of
Gender
Inequalities