Fairy Tales And Gender Stereotypes

Stereotypes are out there, even if you don't realize that they are. Like at work, school, and even public. I will be discussing how these stereotypes can affect students.

Stereotypes affect people in different ways. In the article How a Self-Fulfilling Stereotype Can Drag Down Performance, It talked about how certain races scored on a vocabulary test, that was given by a white interviewer "He found that when black people and white people answered 10 vocabulary question posed by a white interviewer, blacks on average answered 5.49 questions correctly and whites answered 6.33 correctly- a gap typical of the ones found on many standardized tests." This goes to show, that at school if a person of a different race, were to be given a test

In the article Fairy Tales and Gender Stereotypes, it talks about how in princess stories, the princess always needs a prince in order to be saved, thus making little girls feel like they need a man to be useful, but on the occasion, they do give women power, like in the story Mulan. "Some stories have given female characters more power and strength, like Mulan. But which story would you recognize first? Mulan or Cinderella? The stores that support the idea of capable women are often not the favored or popular ones. If women want to change the stereotype, then the tales of castles and princesses may need a little tweaking." This goes to show that people are trying to make a difference, but still, it is like the article says, which one would you recognize first, of course, it is going to be Cinderella, she even has her own castle in Disneyland. So why do we recognize that one first, because of all the new publicity on the princesses, like how Cinderella got a new live action movie, and mulan didn't get a new movie. There is a book called half the sky, that touches on how women in certain areas are beaten for trying to run away from abusive marriages. "Recently I read Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book Half the Sky, about women who were beaten when trying to run away from abusive marriages or

They could be anywhere, online, places you travel, and on social media. If you pay attention to these stereotypes, you may just be able to stop yourself from stereotyping