Do gender stereotypes cause gender discrimination?

Of course they do! All stereotypes cause discrimination. Discrimination means altering your behaviour towards different people depending on what you think about them. Prejudice is deciding what you think about someone based on a group they’re a member of, rather than finding out what they’re like individually. read more

Compounded gender stereotypes can have a disproportionate negative impact on certain groups of women, such women in custody and conflict with the law, women from minority or indigenous groups, women with disabilities, women from lower caste groups or with lower economic status, migrant women, etc. read more

In a national U.S. survey conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality, 90 percent of transgender respondents reported harassment or discrimination at work, 19 percent reported being refused a home or apartment because of their gender identity, 53 percent reported harassment in public, and 19 percent reported being refused health care because of their gender identity. read more