Research on the Factors of Gender Stereotype of Senior High School Students

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220105.093How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Gender stereotype; STEM; Occupational influence; High-school students

Abstract

The word of “Gender Stereotype” has always been a heated topic these years. To find out how much it actually exists in our lives and what are its major causes and influences, the paper gathers information by sending out questionnaire to the high-school students in Wuxi. There are total 134 samples(students). The author wants to discover what kind of factors can influence teenagers most, since they are in an essential period of life. Also, the consequences of these influences play an important part for a people’s growth. Teenagers need to make choices of their classes and it may determine their future career. In general public, we tend to think that women are not suitable for the majors like STEM or the jobs like physicists and engineers. Gender stereotypes cast men as more agentic (e.g., competent, ambitious, assertive, and competitive) and women as more communal (e.g., supportive, caring, warm, and emotional) compared to members of the other sex. These associations represent well-established, cross-culturally consistent gender stereotypes (e.g., Williams & Best, 1990). [1] The author found that it is the growth of adolescents that has caused the huge difference in the number of male and female workers in these fields. Statistical analysis will be used to analyze the questionnaire and discuss the results for questions mentioned above.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiwen Liu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/17
TI  - Research on the Factors of Gender Stereotype of Senior High School Students
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 502
EP  - 509
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220105.093
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.093
ID  - Liu2022
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