Gender Stereotypes and Pop Music Stereotypes

A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

Sterotypes of men

• Men are strong and do all the work.
• Men are the "backbone."
• Women aren't as smart as a man.
• Women can't do as good of a job as a man.
• Girls are not good at sports.
• Guys are messy and unclean.
• Men who spend too much time on the computer or read are geeks.

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Sterotypes of women

• Women are supposed to have "clean jobs" such as secretaries, teachers, and librarians
• Women are not as strong as men
• Women are supposed to make less money than men
• The best women are stay at home moms
• Women don’t play sports
• Women are quieter than men and not meant to speak out
• Women are supposed to be submissive and do as they are told
• Women are supposed to cook and do housework
• Women are responsible for raising children
• Women do not have technical skills and are not good at "hands on" projects such as car repairs
• Women are meant to be the damsel in distress; never the hero
• Women are supposed to look pretty and be looked at
• Women do not play video games
• Women are flirts
• Women are never in charge
• Women can`t drive as well as men

Artists

Charlie Puth

Sia

Selena Gomez

taylor Swift

Zayn

Adele

Pop music

Bands

Coldplay

Maroon 5

5 Seconds

of Summer

Little Mix

Echosmith

One Direction

Target Audience Research

Stereotypes of men

modern view of men

Dated view of men

Gender Stereotypes and Pop Music Stereotypes

• Bread winners

• Head of the household

• Bring in the money

• Provied the food

• Worker

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• Men are equal with women

• Men aren't the only provider for a family. Their wife will also bring in income from her job.

• Men are also seen and intellectually inferior. This is because in TV shows men are typically shown as being idiots.

• Men don`t have common sense and make idiotic decisions.

• Men only care about sex.

• Men care more about their phyisical apperance

Stereotypes of women

Pop music stereotypes

Pop music

Stereotypes

Dated views of Women

Modern Views of Women

• Women should work if that want too

• They should have equal rights in society

• They should be given the same pay as a man for doing the same job

Definition of Pop Music

Music having wide appeal, especially characterised by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies

• Women should stay at home

• Women should not work

• A woman's job is to look after the children and look after the house

• Women should be domestic

Definition

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Stereotypes of men

Pop music age and gender

• Popular people

• Each artist has their own style

• Care about appearance

• Young

• Songs are mostly about relationships

Stereotypes of women

Pop music has a very wide spread age group and gender, this is because pop music belongs to a number of different genres as it is any type of music that is current.

The typical audience for the pop music genre is between 16 and 21 and is mainly aimed at girls.

Stereotypes of men

stereotypical pop music clothing

Stereotypes of women

In many cultures across the world girls are seen as unimportant are more than often are abducted and sold for the purposes of sex, slavery and marriage. In 2014 the “Bring Back Our Girls” campaign began in order to get the attention of people around the world.

This is because on the 14th of April 2014, 276 schoolgirls were abducted from their hostels by members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria. The girls have yet to be rescued after: 668 days (this was the number of days recorded on 11/02/2016).

In Britain today Arranged marriages and FGM are becoming more common for young girls.

This video shows two straight men in Russia doing an expierement to see how people would react to two men holding hands

Stereotypes of men

Stereotypes of women

This video shows Sexism, Strength and Dominance (Masculinity) in Disney Films

Stereotypes of men

This video shows female stereotypes shown in Disney films.

Stereotypes

Stereotypes of women

This video shows Kids Discussing Male Gender Stereotypes

This video shows a male actor undercover (dresses as woman) in order to experience the sexual harassment that women go through

The past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it

The Lion King

Stereotypes of women

The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all. Mulan

Social media and Stereotypes

Social media influences sterotypes world wide using varouis platforms. These platforms include:

• reading articles
• watching TV shows, interviews, documentries and music videos
• listening to music and radio interviews
• adverts

Therefore media is largely responsible for creating stereotypes.

These three videos were created by the brand 'Always' in an attempto end the stereotype "like a girl".

Stereotypes of women

For Example:

Women are often portayed as being desperate to get married. In the film Bride wars this is portrayed to the full extent as two best friends are shown competing against and ruining elements of each others wedding day in order to have their wedding on the day that they want.

This video shows a women who posted pictures of herself without wearing makeup for a while and some of the comments that were posted on the picture, the video then shows herself applying make up and the comments that were posted with her wearing makeup