... us, especially children who are acquiring their own gender identity. A common gender stereotype, which is often portrayed by the media, is for example is of a woman doing the washing-up. A study of how each gender has been stereotyped has been carried out by Williams and Best in 1982. Williams and Best conducted a large-scale study of gender stereotypes. Men and women were asked to judge three hundred different adjectives that describe human behaviour and decide whether they would generally associate it with males or females. From this, Williams and Best were able to find which adjectives best described our gender stereotypes. This investigation has been carried out so that we can further our understanding of whether or not society holds gender stereotypes of how each sex should act and behave. The hypotheses for the investigation are: Null hypothesis (H0): there will be no significant differences ...

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