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

Women are used more in advertisement than men

Opinion:

in my opinion, women are used more frequently then men in advertisement is a fact. This is usually used because of psychological reasons as usually men has stronger feelings than women. Research shows that when women are used in advertisement, sales went up drastically as males usually act as an income adder and buy the products due to emotion feelings . This is not gender stereotypes but typically it is just for psychological reasons to boost up the sales of a product. There are also men in advertisement, it just depends on the target market of the product. Marketer's intention is to make the opposite gender's emotion move, and thus purchase the product even though the product is rarely used or of bad quality. "Sex Sells".
We must note that not all 'gossips' are part of stereotypes. This article is one example of a generalization.

Nowadays, advertising is omnipresent in our lives, and has a really strong influence in our decisions as consumers. The aim is no longer to inform us of a new product and its use, it is more to create a wish to possess a product. Moreover, advertising has become a centre of attraction. Television shows are devoted to it, a museum was created in its honour and we talk about it, as we would do with a movie. It can make us laugh; it can shock us, which shows that advertising has a link with the customs and the codes, which govern our society. For instance the Museum of advertising in Paris presents at the moment a retrospective about Chinese advertising from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day to show the impact of governments on advertising, the link between advertising and communist society and reflects the Chinese history.

Therefore we are led to think that advertising reflects our way of life and of thinking. The way to represent women is a good example of it. The advertising of the twentieth century shows indeed the evolution of the women’s status.

Historians sometimes call the twentieth century the "century of the woman" or the century of the "sexual revolution" (R. Aaron and JF Sirinelli) because the situation of women and, consequently, the relations between women and men have considerably changed in western societies, in particular in France. Even if the movement toward equality has still not been achieved, women have obtained a real political, economic and domestic power of decision.

Source: http://www.periwork.com/coates/research%20projects/Juliegaez/index.html

Women worser at parking than Man?

Many people have questioned the fact whether women are worser at parking than man? In the study conducted by Dr Claudia Wolf from Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany confirmed that women generally takes more time to park and is lacking of accuracy. They were all tested with parallel parking, rear parking, front head parking and their maneuvers were generally lacking than compared the man technique. Research suggest that female drivers generally takes 20 seconds more time when parking.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/6849247/Women-worse-at-parking-than-men-study-shows.html

Opinion:

I think that this article and research conducted by Dr Claudia is partially right however, we have to take into account the sample size for this research. Dr Claudia only used 60 people to do this research, and the conclusion cannot be generalized. As we sometimes might see several female drivers drive way better than man. 

For Example: Janet Guthrie, Race Car driver (first woman to compete in the Indianapolis 500 and Daytona 500)

Thus, this conclusion cannot be generalized to all Women. This research conducted is an example of Gender Stereotype in the 21st Century.

Women Nag more than Men?

Women are known to Nag and Brag more than man, but this fact has changed since the science revolution in the 21st century. The myth that Women always nags more than man is widely accepted in the public, however, it is a false generalization of gender stereotyping. With the help of scientific research and random sampling, it was found that both man and women talked roughly 16,000 words per day.

Source: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2007/07/05-01.html

Own opinion:
We man do generally say that women is more annoying than us, but in fact we are just simply looking in the perspective of the man and not the women's. We aren't able to fully understand what they think and what they feel, why they brag and why they nag. It's simply because we are not women. Why do we generalize women as more nagging than men? It's simply because men likes women who talks more often compared to women who talks less. Thus, without us noticing, we will frequently interact with the more talkative people. After some time, we simply generalize and say that all the women that we see simply nags more than man.

**It is logically right to some people that Women nag more than man but it cannot be generalize

An illustration: All birds can fly, an ostrich is a bird, therefore ostrich can fly---->it is logically right but not cannot be generalize.