Gender stereotypes : nature or nurture

Abstract EN

Nature-nurture debates continue to be highly contentious in the gender despite the common recognition that both types of causal explanations are important.

In fact, feminists have understood ‘woman’ differently.

They take it as a sex term that refers to the biological characteristics distinguishing male and female, or as a gender term that refers to those social, cultural, and psychological traits linked to males and females through particular social contexts.

This paper discus three perspectives on gender Stereotypes: biological determinism believes that gender behavior is based solely on genetics, gender as socially constructed focus on how proposed biological mechanisms interact with social influences, and gender institution which framing gender in terms of its collective, institutional, and historical properties.