Question

On the basis of stereotypes and its impact, answer the following questions:
What is meant by stereotype?
What do you understand by the term gender stereotype?
How can the stereotype that girls are a burden on their parents?
affect the life of a daughter?

Answer 1

• Stereotypes are characteristics that society instinctively attributes to groups of people to classify them according to age, weight, occupation, skin colour, gender, etc.
• Gender stereotyping involves associating girls and boys with separate and, at times, opposing sets of characteristics.
• For example, we are brought up in a society where boys are brave, they don’t cry because only girls cry as they are soft, and gentle.

The stereotype that girls are a burden on their parents affect the life of a daughter in the following ways:

• They are not properly cared for.
• They are not encouraged for higher education​
• They are not encouraged to attend/join schools​
• They are married off at an early age​.
• They are not provided with nutritious food​
• They are over-engaged in household work/chores​