Thinking about gender stereotypes Provide students with a copy of the table below which shows some common examples of gender stereotyping or ask students to copy it. When they have finished students should swap their work with another student and compare answers. Example of stereotyping Way of thinking encouraged by this stereotype Other possible ways of thinking not shown by the stereotype 1. Theses advertisements seem to suggest that mothers do all the housework and cooking, and really enjoy this. Men should do more of the cooking.
Some mothers hate doing housework.
Not all images use stereotyping. This activity requires students to create a poster which shows the difference between stereotyped images and non-stereotyped images. Students should form a group with two or three other students and choose one example of stereotyping from the table above. They should take a large sheet of paper and divide it into two columns. One column should be headed 'Stereotyped images' and the other 'Non-sterotyped images'.