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The Sacred Circle A Safe Haven for women on the Journey to Divorce and Beyond Message Information Embrace being a Woman Breaking down the Stereotype It’s all about You Legal Children Support
EMBRACE BEING A WOMAN According to a psychology experiment on gender stereotypes conducted in 1971 by Broverman &Broverman; Healthy adult women and healthy adult men were found to be drastically different. According to Broverman respondents, a normal mentally healthy woman is stereotyped as: 1. More Submissive 2. Less Independent 3. Less Adventurous 4. More easily Influenced 5. Less Aggressive 6. Less Competitive 7. More excitable in crises 8. More easily hurt 9. More emotional 10. More vain regarding appearance 11. Less Objective 12. Less interested in Math and Science
I bet right now you are thinking, times have changed and since this study was conducted quite a long time ago the characteristics of a healthy woman must have too. Well that is not the case. Broverman’s study was replicated by Susan Seem and Diane Clark in 2006 and found the same results!
Historically, men have held power across majority of cultures around the world. Men, being the dominate sex, were the doctors, scientists, and teachers. Holding these positions within society gave them the advantage to construct reality and set the ‘norm.’ During the 18th and 19th century men perceived the emotional, submissive, and more excitable in crises characteristics of women by proclaiming that they were not as psychologically durable as men and therefore were considered mentally ill or ‘crazy.’ During this time, men clearly did not have the knowledge to comprehend the female psyche and since they were in control, the ignorant perception of women and how to deal with women became reality. Today, women are still being called ‘crazy,’ especially by former spouses when they are not infact ‘crazy,’ but are just a normal, mentally healthy woman. This is the way |
