Activity 8: Write on
Read the essay below and evaluate according to its language use. Write
your answer on a separate sheet of paper with 200 words only. Let your
parent/guardian rate your output.
Gender differences and biases have been a part of humans' everyday
lives ever since anyone can remember. Anthropological evidence has
revealed that even the humans and the hominids of ancient times had
separate roles for men and women in their societies, which relates to the
concepts of epistemology. There were certain things that women were
forbidden to do, and similarly, men could not partake in some of the
traditionally reserved activities for women. This has given birth to the gender
role stereotypes that we find today. These differences have been passed on
to our current times;. However, many differences occur now that have
caused a lot of debate amongst the people about their appropriateness and
have made it possible for us to have a stereotyping threat by which we
sometimes assign certain qualities to certain people without thinking. For
example, men are blamed for undermining women and stereotyping them for
traditional roles, and this could be said to be the same for men; men are
also stereotyped in many of their roles. This leads to social constructionism
since reality is not always depicted by what we see with our eyes. These
ideas have carried on in advertising, and the differences shown between the
males and the females are apparent in many advertisements we see today.
This can have some severe impacts on society as people begin to stereotype
gender roles in reality.​