Gender, equality, rights, freedom, discrimination, stereotyping are becoming words used in common parlance. Pick up the paper and some of these words would most certainly pop up. In a society and world where such concepts are being talked about it becomes imperative that as a parent you too determine how you talk to your children about them.

Helping your child develop the right attitude, beliefs and values is a must and your primary responsibility as a parent. But with the discourse shifting to more nuanced issues like gender, stereotyping and discrimination the responsibility has enhanced multifold. Decoding these aspects is an essential and a task which requires your utmost attention.

How Gender Stereotypes and Discrimination Percolate into a Child’s World

From being narrowly conceptualized as something which perhaps impacts females mostly specially when contrasted and compared with their male counterparts, be it at home, at school, in social groups or within workplaces, gender stereotypes and discrimination have broadened to encompass other populations as well, be it the men in the society or those belonging to the LGBT category.

This broadening of the concepts has brought to the forefront the entire population which can potentially be engaged in perpetuating gender based stereotypes and on account of them discriminating against people of other genders. This makes the issue far more complex than what meets the eye.

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