GENDER STEREOTYPES HAVE PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN THE DISRESPECT OF WOMEN. IS THIS STATEMENT TRUE?
Yes, gender stereotypes have made women feel disrespected and inferior to men. Which hour or day have women not faced discrimination? She faces it daily, in every aspect and in all terms. It has become a habit of facing discrimination and inequality for the female gender.
If a girl wants to study something apart from normal education, then she is not supported, if she wants to pursue a career in her area of interest let’s say Army or scientist or officer before she asks for something the very first advice given by family will be you can’t do that because it’s difficult and it is meant for men. So, this is not only a gender stereotype but it is judging on the basis of gender.
There are many such examples where this is observed, like cooking if men do it, he is said cooking is not meant for them and when women work and also manages, she is told they don’t need to work and focus on family and children. At each and every stage or phase women are also suffering and listening to society’s comments and criticisms because judging and criticizing is the easiest task to do but the women facing knows what is she going through.
Start from childhood girls and boys are divided on the basis of very basic things like clothing, games, sports, activity, education, etc., and from that phase till women is at old age still faces gender divide and we can’t imagine how much she faces and suffers. But it should not be existing more because women are the only ones who are blamed and also disrespected. So we as individuals, not practice gender stereotypes.
In the words of Eva Mendes, “People are incapable of stereotyping you, you stereotype yourself because you’re the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in the stereotype” We should stop accepting what is irrelevant and disrespecting to us and if we accept then it will be never-ending.