Gender Stereotyping In School And Its Impacts On Primary And Middle Level Schooling

Abstract

Gender stereotypes play an important role in socialization and gender role formation in educational spheres. School environment, class room, teachers, class room environment, text books and curriculum present and portray the masculine ideology. School curriculum and text books are perpetuating a masculine and dominant trait which decreases female portrayal that effect their potentialities and capabilities at school level and even their empowerment in the larger social structure. Similarly, teacher’s attitudes and behavior in formation of student’s personality is also playing a pivotal role during the class and curriculum development. The current study thus investigates that how gender stereotypes developed during classroom, teaching of subjects, curriculum and text books. The data has been collected from 100 students of two primary and two middle schools selected through purposive sampling technique and the data was collected through structured interview schedule. The data has been analyzed through SPSS while both descriptive and inferential statistics has been utilized for discussion over the results. The study thus conclude that school text, curriculum, attitude of the teacher towards male students in the class are the major reasons promoting gender stereotypes which may affect women status and empowerment.