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This document discusses gender stereotypes and strategies to promote gender equality. It provides resources on understanding gender stereotypes, their development and effects. It advocates increasing awareness and education, supporting women's leadership, promoting equal pay and opportunities, combating gender-based violence, and engaging men and boys. The real-life story highlights how gender stereotypes can negatively impact self-worth and limit opportunities from a young age. Statistics show stereotypes still influence roles and responsibilities within the home and workplace.

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Gray Brown Brush Stroke Art Community Trifold Brochure

This document discusses gender stereotypes and strategies to promote gender equality. It provides resources on understanding gender stereotypes, their development and effects. It advocates increasing awareness and education, supporting women's leadership, promoting equal pay and opportunities, combating gender-based violence, and engaging men and boys. The real-life story highlights how gender stereotypes can negatively impact self-worth and limit opportunities from a young age. Statistics show stereotypes still influence roles and responsibilities within the home and workplace.

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RESOURCES

Combating Gender Stereotypes


and Sexism - Gender Equality
https://www.coe.int/en/web/ge
nderequality/gender-
stereotypes-and-sexism

Gender Stereotypes: Meaning,


Development, and Effects
https://www.verywellhealth.co
UNDERSTANDING m/gender-stereotypes-5323771
GENDER STEREOTYPES
Gender stereotyping is defined as How Gender Stereotypes
an overgeneralization of Impact Behavior
characteristics, differences and https://www.joinonelove.org/lea
attributes of a certain group rn/gender-stereotypes-impact-

GENDER
based on their gender. Gender behavior/
stereotypes create widely
accepted biases about certain Getting To Equal: Promoting
characteristics or traits and Gender Equality through

Stereotypes
perpetuate the notion that each Human Development
gender and associated behaviors
https://www.worldbank.org/en/r
are binary. Under this assumption,
esults/2013/05/08/promoting-
if a man or a woman act
gender-equality-through-
differently from how their gender
human-development Empowering Men and Women
is expected to behave there is a
disconnect in the evaluator’s FRANE, KAREN ELOIZA
mind. MENDEZ, MARY ANNA
PROMOTING REAL-LIFE
GENDER EQUALITY STORY
▪︎ Increase Awareness As a mother of a boy and a girl, I was
very conscious about never imposing
and Education
▪︎ Support Women's
social gender norms and stereotypes
on my children. It was primarily
Leadership because of my own childhood
▪︎ Promote Equal Pay experience – I was expected to act,

▪︎ Provide Equal behave, and express myself in a


certain way since I was nine or ten
Opportunities years old. Since that tender age, I used
▪︎Combat Gender-Based to be told every day that a girl’s value
STATISTICS ON GENDER
Violence and worth lie in her cooking and
STEREOTYPES IN
▪︎ Reach out to Men and domestic work skills. Regardless of the
education of a woman, if she is not
BREADWINNING
Boys good at cooking or cleaning, her ▪︎ Women still take on much of
husband’s family would never love her. the responsibilities in the home,
That’s not all. A girl should never reply such as unpaid care work and
back, should never say ‘no’ to any household chores.
order, never challenge her traditional ▪︎Breadwinning is still a
and cultural values, or talk or laugh responsibility mostly taken up by
loudly – the list was endless. Because men but urban millennials
of my apathy in cooking as a pre-teen, believe women can also be
every day I used to be reminded how breadwinners.
worthless I was. I felt limited, restricted,
inferior, and less cared for throughout
▪︎ Women continue to be held
against very high standards,
my entire childhood, because of my
especially when seeking to apply
gender.
for traditionally male roles.
- SWAGATA SEN

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