Gender sterotypes

Male stereotypes

• Traditional masculine man- often shown as being muscly, strong, brave, heterosexual, working in manual jobs such as building, plumbing ect. They are often aggressive, tall and dominant over women, works to provide for family, does no cleaning, cooking or childcare
• New Man- often shown as being less masculine but still heterosexual, very peaceful, looks after the family, stays at home to look after family does cleaning and cooking ect. shown as equal to women
• Gay Man- Often shows as being very feminine, weak, working in jobs such as fashion or hairdressing, bitchy, ect

Female stereotypes

• Traditional feminine woman- often shown as being girly, likes pink, wears dresses, does feminine jobs such as working in fashion, hairdressing or stays at home to look after the children, needs a man to cope, weak, scared of things, needs rescuing, pure and innocent
• Sexy woman- very flirty, dresses in a revealing way, more powerful than tradional women, uses men to get what she wants, no loyalty to other women, bitchy
• Lesbian woman- often shown as dressing in a masculine fashion, doing masculine roles, hating men, looking masculine