Factors influencing gender stereotypes and discrimination and their relationship to gender oppositions

Abstract

With society developing at a rapid pace and higher education opportunities for the public, more and more individuals realize the potential for gender stereotypes and discrimination in our daily lives, especially for women. Even some media utilize this situation to construct gender opposites in order to catch a specific target. According to this phenomenon, this paper is supposed to search for the factors that cause gender inequality in order to relieve this situation and analyze the relationship between gender stereotypes, discrimination, and gender opposites. The approach for this paper is to search considerable literature and related database to prove the viewpoint and list three main factors that influence an individual’s erroneous cognition. Moreover, this paper concludes that the one reason some individuals have gender oppositional psychology is because of gender stereotypes and discrimination. Therefore, this paper comes up with suggestions to improve it from the education aspect, the society aspect, and the media aspect.