Gender Roles Patterning and Cultural Stereotypes in Girl Students

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Women Research Centre, AI-Zahra University

Abstract

The study examines patterns of gender roles and cultural stereotypes concerning femininity and masculinity in a group of girl students. The method is questionnaire and the aim is to reach an understanding of gender  roles through surveying their psychological characteristics. Findings show that girl students under study exhibit significant gender roles difference. In other words, there is a difference in subjective patterns of famininity and masculinity. Moreover, there is a relationship between socioeconomic and cultural patterning and the students' gender roles phenomenon also show that gender is a dynamic, fluid, and changing non, and that gender roles constitute a set of characters which have To be updated and continuously discussed.

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