Women and women's activities are often considered inferior to men and men's activities. On a decision making level women are often treated as unequal interlocutors. Women are more frequently than men depicted and looked at in a sexist manner. Traffic in women increasingly takes place. Women are sold as if they were merchandise and are consequently used and abused.
People still create standard images which affect both women and men.
Moreover, they have to be beautiful, sensitive and a good wife. Men for their part are responsible for the family income, a full-time job and making a career. The image created of allochtonous women in the Netherlands and of women in the South is also biased. People in the Netherlands often asssume that any other culture is more oppressive towards women than their own culture, that things look worse for women in the South than for women in the North and that they have less authority than women living in the Western world. Women in Gelderland believe that government policy must be aimed at breaking through standard images of women and men.