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Gender Stereotyping

Stereotypes can affect how women 'angels' invest according to new study

Stereotypes about gender affect investment decision-making, even among successful women, researchers concluded in a new study on how gender affects investing strategies. Examining angel funds, or groups of wealthy investors who pool resources to make investments into a diverse array of start-up businesses, researchers found that the proportion of women angel investors in a group is related to the number of investments made by the group.
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Gender stereotyping may start as young as three months, study of babies' cries shows

Gender stereotyping may start as young as three months, according to a study of babies' cries. Despite no actual difference in pitch between the voices of girls and boys before puberty, the study found that adults make gender assumptions about babies based on their cries. Ref. Source 8p.

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Certain aspects of gender 'stereotyping' are unavoidable, just because the genders are different. Women are the only (Human) gender that cab become pregnant and nurse a baby. Thus babies are going to be comforted by women more. Men have much more testosterone and will think more 'cut-throat' or 'logically' because of it. That isn't to say that we haven't found ways around these predispositions. With a bottle, a man can feed a baby without a mom every being around. If women work at it they can be more aggressive and 'cut-throat' than men. The point is something 'unnatural' has to intervene. Each gender is predisposed to certain qualities and personality 'quirks'.

I think gender is a pretty fluid term. Just because you are both with an XX or XY (And the associated 'equipment'), doesn't mean that gender is all one or the other. Upraising, social interaction with peers, and genetics all play a role in one's gender identity. However, based solely on genetics and biology there are differences between genders that unless something intervenes (Society, ingenuity, or personal determination) will be evident. Now as a human society we cannot abstract and correlate all the variables well enough to know how any one affects gender identity, but there is a reason we stereotype in the first place.

Archeologist and sociologist have hypothesized that stereotyping helps us identify potential threats and friends in our environment. We are hardwired to make judgment calls off of very little information and abstract that to apply to a wide group of 'related' circumstances. Then as a society we pass these prejudices down to our progeny and thus a stereotype is born.

I think with a more global society, we have to now realize that while these stereotypes may be helpful in certain circumstances, they are not true rules that every individual in the 'subset' of that stereotype fits. Not all 'blondes' are dumb; not all 'blacks' are ghetto; not all 'whites' are prim (Or rich); not all 'gingers' are soulless; the list of stereotypes goes on and on. It is not easy as a society to move past these deep-rooted memes (Ideas), but we must learn to treat every individual as a unique and worthy peer until they do something themselves to warrant being treated differently (We don't have to keep giving a person who treats us badly the benefit of the doubt. It has nothing to do with their gender/race/nationality, it is the one person who is 'bad').

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Obama administration to tell schools that get federal funds to let students use bathroom that fits their gender identity

The U.S. Department of Education will tell school districts Friday that federal law requires them to allow students to use restrooms and locker rooms "Consistent with their gender identity." The guidance doesn't have the force of law, but because it tells schools how the administration intends to enforce Title IX, it carries an implied threat: Follow the federal guidelines or risk losing federal funds. Ref. USAToday.

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Eureka! Gender affects how we judge competence, genius

Think of the word "Genius," and a few images undoubtedly come to mind - perhaps a picture of Albert Einstein, of a scientist in a lab shouting “Eureka!” or of present-day theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. Whatever mental picture is conjured up, chances are they all have one thing in common: The person is male. A new study that sought to determine whether perceptions of inventions and inventors are shaped by how they're described. Researchers looked at two metaphors that describe scientific discovery: a light bulb turning on, signifying a moment of brilliance, and a seed that is nurtured until it takes root. Ref. Source 6j.

Gender Stereotyping

Everyone is addicted to this concept that we have to divide and pigeon hole people into neat categories. We learned over and over again to avoid stereotypes, and yet we hinge out entire world on who's what gender, what race, what religion, what political party, what color hair a person has… Could we just assume people are people and people are different?