Women are Wimps

Opinion:

This is as basic as stereotypes get. Guys are bigger and stronger and traditionally are thought of as the more badass of the sexes. Women are frailer, smaller and prone to the sniffles at the slightest injury.

The one exception, of course, is childbirth, when even the weakest woman is an Amazon warrior when it comes to tolerating labor pain that would make a grown man whimper like he just took a paintball shot to the nuts. So call a woman frail, and she'll reply that if men had to give birth, the human race would have died out a long time ago.

Facts/ Article:

Women do have a lower pain threshold, but it has nothing to do with toughness. Men simply don't feel pain the same way women do, and what they do feel, they feel a lot less of. Women have more pain receptors in their skin for starters, amplifying their exposure to aches and pains.

Researchers believe it might be tied to the presence of GIRK2, a nifty little protein that not only affects pain threshold, but how well morphine and other painkillers work to block the pain once it's been inflicted. The next time you tell your girlfriend to walk off that cramp she got trying page 46 of the Kama Sutra with you, try to show a little compassion, she may just have less GIRK2 than you.

Ultimately, a woman's body can require more than double amount of pain killer to get the same amount of relief.

The exception is when they are pregnant or have just delivered a baby. Endorphins and a cocktail of other feel good chemicals build up over the pregnancy, ensuring that mom can deal with the delivery and likely explaining the real reason expectant women have that special glow.

Source: http://www.cracked.com/article_18529_6-absurd-gender-stereotypes-that-science-says-are-true.html

Men eats more than women

Opinion:

Many tv shows and medias shows us that men would definitely eat more than women. Women are viewed to be more feminism and should ideally be more proper than men. However, this stereotype portrayed by the media affect the way we see things. The fact is that not all men eats more than women is overlooked in media. This is because men is more active, and needs more energy than compared to women. This fact is overlooked in medias such that they did not give a reason for the excuse. Thus, most men would eat more food than compared to women. However, there are few of those women who eats more than men does. Thus this generalization cannot be used.

Article :

Yorkie bars, Nestlé has always told us, are "not for girls". They are to be growled from their wrappers and chewed in mouth-sized chunks by manly men, men with stubble, men with muscles that bulge like bellies. Flakes, however, are for ladies. Sexy ones, in lipstick and baths, who crumble off a feminine bite, before letting their eyes fall closed in pleasure.

It's a complicated business, eating. And one made knottier by the idea that some foods are masculine (hamburgers, steak), while others (yoghurt, quiche) are strictly for girls. Were these ideas of gendered eating originally generated just for ad campaigns, or could the cliches point towards a deeper truth? Do men and women need different diets? How many of our views on what constitutes "women's food" come from how we're brought up, and how many are tied to something genetic? If men are from meat, are women from cupcake?

Source : http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/17/gender-eating-men-women

Girls learn better from female teacher than men does

Article:

Some female teachers feel that being a woman is enough to encourage 

girls, and it isn’t necessary to do anything else. Some male teachers feel that it isn’t possible to reach girls so it isn’t necessary to try. Some adults and students feel that girls avoid classes taught by men.

it makes little difference to most students whether they are taught by a man or a woman.  It is the quality of the teaching, not the gender of the teacher that matters. While teachers treat male and female students differently, this is true for both female and male teachers.  The gender of the teacher has little or no effect on how they treat girls and boys. While women and men can teach girls well (or poorly), if students never see women teaching math or science, the myths about who does and doesn’t do math and science are reinforced. 

Opinion:

we tend to assume that females and males are different — are indeed “opposite sexes.”  We see someone’s sex as an important predictor of their abilities and interests and assume that if we know someone is a girl or a boy, we know a lot about them. That assumption is wrong!  Knowing someone’s sex may tell us a lot about them biologically but it tells us very little about them in other ways.  Knowing someone is a woman does not tell us if her athletic ability is closer to Martina Navratilova’s or a couch potato's.  Knowing someone is a man tells us nothing about whether his math skills reflect those of an Einstein or a math phobic. 

Conclusion:

Sex is not a good predictor of academic skills, interests or even emotional characteristics.  In fact, as the graph below indicates, sex is a bad predictor. 

Source : http://www.campbell-kibler.com/Stereo.pdf

Men are stronger than Women?

Opinion:

 Many believe that men are created way stronger and tougher than women do. They usually could carry more weight than women, and are more buff. Men are more active and more sporty. Christians also believe that men is created from dust while women are created much more beautifully, which is from the male's bone. That fact has definitely open the doors to generalization and thus, gender stereotype in Media (from the Bible). This debates has been going off and people are trying to proof that men are stronger than women physically and emotionally. However, this generalization is not right as we might often see men carrying more weight than women, but there are also some men who is as weak as a women. Thus this stereotype is wrong and cannot be generalized. There is also a fact that proves the generalization wrong. Men can lift more weight than women in a short period of time, but women, can lift a weight for a longer period of time. so who is stronger? that depends again on the definition of strong. Thus, this generalization cannot be implied thus causing gender stereotype.

Male and Female Stereotypes created by Media

Opinion: To me, media does create gender stereotype by portraying female as weak, caring and nurturing but men as sporty rough and aggressive. However, we must understand the reasons behind those. For me, it is just purely for the audiences to feel the emotions of the actors. Doesn't mean all women are caring and all men are aggressive. However, we might sometime get the wrong understanding from the media, as they are most likely to create gender stereotyping while our brain are perceiving and generalizing the things that we see without our consciousness. So media is quite dangerous if our thinking is captured as it can easily influence our thinking, thus making us bias or creating stereotype.  

Article:

Women are caring and nurturing. Men are aggressive. Boys are good at math. The list of stereotypes goes on but a new study in American Psychologist suggests that these differences are illusions created by the media.

Author of the study, Janet S. Hyde, from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, says traditional portrayals of men and women as psychologically different are vastly overestimated and the two sexes are more similar in personality, communication, cognitive ability and leadership than realized.

She bases her assertions on a meta-analysis of various gender studies conducted over the last twenty years. Psychological differences based on gender were examined in studies that looked at a number of psychological traits and abilities to determine how much gender influenced an outcome. The traits and variables examined were cognitive abilities, verbal and nonverbal communication, social or psychological traits, psychological well-being, motor behaviors and moral reasoning.

She found that gender differences accounted for either zero or a very small effect for most of the psychological variables examined. Only motor skills (such as throwing), some aspects of sexuality and increased aggression showed marked differences.

Source: http://www.aphroditewomenshealth.com/news/20050818234122_health_news.shtml