UNIT: GENDER ROLES AND STEREOTYPES

Dear all, today we are going to talk about the stereotypes for women and men in our society 

I think we all know how they work and that they are still present, although the new generations are changing that and learning how to get off of stereotypes and gender roles by teaching what are they, giving examples and teach the childrens not to reproduce them. 

when I was a child, I went to a co-educational school, which means with girls and boys and when I was in high school, I went to a school only for womens. Personally, I liked both of them. I think it is important to be in a mixed school, but I don´t regret going in a women´s school in high school, it was more fun, more comfy too. I went to a emblematic school, and we had some reflexions about our lives and things that happens to us, and we cry together so it was a great time. Now that I am in a university, I realized I forgot how to speak with men lol

I agree that girls and boys are treated differently, and I belive that school foster gender roles for example in physical education, the boys could play ball and the girls could do rhythmic gimnastics. Ooh and I remember when I was in my last year of school, they asigned one yard for girls and one yard for boys, and I couldn´t play with my male friends.

I think they are changing so slow here in Chile, there are still so much people that agree with stereotypes and foster them. Now I think that this expectations are decreasing, now for example, we know and society in general are so much flexibe about what a boy or a girls can study for example. 

If I had a chance to change my gender, it would be only for a day. Like to know how they think but really I think I wouldn´t change being a women. Being a man is boring, the only thing I would have to do is lie