IBM Slovenia
Powered by the Gender Equality Research Institute Slovenia – Inštitut za proučevanje enakosti spolov – IPES.
Gender inequality in different environments results in various severe human rights violations. To meet this global challenge, it is vital that both men and women take part in discussions about its root causes. While increasing the recognition of women’s accomplishments is essential to creating a more gender-balanced world, challenging gender stereotypes and achieving gender equality is just as important for men.
As the title suggests, gender stereotyping assumes that there is inequality in the talents of both genders. The stereotype that women are not good leaders leads to the idea that there is some innate difference between men and women, which causes this discrepancy. Stereotypes feed prejudice and discrimination in many contexts, but they also infiltrate individual self-images to produce gender identities, influencing the way we dress, our choice of career and, finally, our actual abilities to perform.
Research has devoted a great deal of attention to ways in which we take on ideas about gender and, especially, ways in which we are affected by these ideas. People who hope to foster gender equality often wonder where to intervene in this system of cultural, social, and personal processes.
This workshop seeks to understand, critically assess and deconstruct gender stereotypes: personal assumptions about what it means to be a man and what it means to be a woman. The workshop will help participants reflect on the implications of gender stereotypes, consider social inequalities that influence their everyday life and affect their own performance in the academic sphere or workplace.
