Gender roles and Stereotypes

As the website says "gender stereotypes are generalizations about the roles of each gender". In Chile, despite the fact that in the last decade Chilean society has witnessed small advances gender equality advances, there are still many gender stereotypes that negatively influence the development of individuals.

In our country the gender stereotypes about intellectual ability emerge early and influence children's, for example, it s thought that boys to be better at math than girls, it is for this reason that many girls begin to feel less intelligent than boys. When these child´s grow up, They still face many gender stereotypes, now, the friendship between girls are believed to be more complex and conflictive than friendship between boys, also that boys must protect girls inasmuch as girls are fragile and sensitive and boys are possessive and strong. Finally, when they are adults is said that the womans aren´t bosses, the best women are stay at home moms and "women are not as strong as men" whilst the men are bosses, men are in charge; they are always at the.