Its totally stereotypes that we breed about people. How stereotypes are differentiated on the basis of gender and all ... Hope this will help ;))

1. By:~
FAISAL #Social
#Psychology AND
ZAHIR NAbi

2. What are stereotypes?
• It is cognitive component of attitudes toward a social group—specifically, beliefs about what a
particular is like.
• According to attitude approach—some groups are characterized by –ve stereotypes and this
leads to general feelings of hostility… In result, other group starts to discriminate.

3. Stereotyping: Believes about social Groups
• Stereotypes are subtlety generalizations of any social groups like gender, race, nationality,
caste, creed and what not. They are often formed for the beleifs and expectations they had for
other groups.
• Gender Stereotypes:~
Beleifs concerning about both men and women—both positive or negative.

5. Stereotypes and the “Glass Ceiling”
• Women are particularly underrated.
• Only 16% of corporate officers in USA are woman, whilst only 01% hold position
of CEO. What would be the statisitics in the Pakistan ??
• Even though Women has shown their expertise in every field… There is final
barrier that prevents women—as a group—from reaching top positions in the
workplace; Glass Ceiling.
• This happens because stereotypic attribues of “typical manager” overlaps with
“typical men” more than as compared to “typical woman”. Hence they are
considered less fit for organizational leadership.

6. But there are women who have broken this barrier and
became successful leaders of their respective.
Even though, they work more smartly but they receive
less evaluations as compared to man.
They literary violate their stereotypic expectancies instead
they act like an prototype of Leader—which takes a lot of
courage.

8. Barrier aka glass ceiling is broken, what next ??

9. Stereotypes and Glass Cliff
• How women break the glass ceiling ??
There is an intriguing hypothesis for that at times of crisis
may the prime time for women advancement.
• Examples: Benazir Bhutto, Haseena Wajid or First female prime-
minister was elected when country face economic collapse.

10. Can we be victims of stereotypes without
even knowing about it ??
Ever wondered– when you want to go for
rented flat, there are people who ask if u are
married or not ? Or Are you gonna live with
your family or not ??
Later, when you say your bachelor and going
to reside alone—they reject you saying that
we need married people here not singles
one; Stereotypes led to discrimination.

11. Why do people
form and use
stereotypes ??

12. Why do people form and use stereotypes??
• They often function as schemas—cognitive framework for
organzing,interpreting and recalling information.
• This subtley helps out the cognitive misers, so they could invest least
amount of cognition in the situation. (reason for stereotyping)

13. Stereotype: How they operate
• Consider the following groups: homosexuals, U.S.
Soldiers,Asians,Latins and Cat lovers.
If you are asked what you think about them—their characteristics—you
can easily write/ probabily wont find any difficulty to distinguish and
scribble their traits.
• That’s where our stereotypes about other groups are operational. They
literally act as theories describing any specific group.
• When en encounter those type of persona from group who doesn’t fit in
their respective stereotype;Subtype.

14. Do stereotypes ever change?
• According to the theorist, stereotype will remain same as long as
relation with that group is same and stable.
• If the relation between the individual and the group is altered, that’s
where stereotypes are changed.