Gender Stereotypes

Gender stereotypes are behavioral norms that are attributed to each gender and have been perpetrated over time. As the article pointed out, these are defined at birth. It's fun, but when baby's gender is announced, for example at a party or baby shower, the color options are always blue or pink. It's amazing how we inadvertently assumed that blue is for boys and pink for girls, when in reality they are just colors. Throughout our lives, these stereotypes add up and continue when we are little. The difference in toys, clothing, colors, games, etc., continues until we come to normalize them as people. After all, it is what our parents learned from our own grandparents, and so on, that demonstrates the retrograde thinking that existed in past generations.

In the present, this situation is latent among us and we are increasingly aware as a society of this reality. For the last generations from the 90s to the 2000s, these stereotypes are already obsolete, the new generations come with another type of thinking, where these issues are constantly discussed and questioned.

However, these are still present in several countries, especially the most conservative ones, and Chile is no exception. This can be reflected in existing wage inequalities, down to something as basic as domestic work, where women are again the most affected by imposed gender roles.

It is time that no aspect of our life is further classified and we are able to do anything no matter who we are. We can see the problem, but there is still a long way to go, to finally break these stereotypes and simply be free people.