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Breaking Down the Barriers Associated with Men and Women Stereotypes.

This article is about the book, The Myth of Mars and Venus, by Deborah Cameron. This books challenges myths that separate men and women as two separate spheres. Cameron makes the argument that, "linguistic stereotypes come from the idea that women cannot form grammatically complex sentences." Cameron's aim is to establish a relationship between gender and language, while proving the myths mentioned as incorrect or overlysimplified. A lot of the ideas centered around gender differences studies tend to be inaccurate because "a number of the ideas were unfounded, including the belief that boys are better at higher-level cognitive tasks and girls are more suggestible." In a lot of studies people have accentuated the differences amongst men and women, instead of recognizing that both genders are rather lumped together based on both gender's styles of communications. To go along with this, "gossip occurs in different forms between men and women, both sexes talk to obtain power in different ways." According to a research experiment, according to a gendered power scale, the couples that took part in the experiment consisted of those that were "power-balanced or power-imbalanced." To go along with this, those of heterosexual relationships experiencing imbalanced couples were even further divided into categories of either the male having greater power or in other situations, the woman having greater power. These power dynamics support the position that they establish a division amongst the division of labor. It is important not to use men coming from traditional male-dominant ideals because their participation in the experiments is rather bias, and directed solely towards power and autonomy. Both discuss how these studies are primary focused on the white middle class. Cameron calls the target audience for her book as directed towards gender roles pertaining to those actions of the middle class specifically. She then goes on to explain the gap between men and women which makes it hard for each gender to get a better sense of understanding of each other, specifically causing a lack of communication. According to additional research relating to gender differences amongst communication, there are two main types, academic research and popular literature. The first, is immense variations of gender traits found in typical conversations between the two genders. The other, popular literature narrows in more closely to focus on stylistic differences that men and women use when partaking in a conversation. Differences in conversation pertain a lot to gossip, furthermore relaying the idea that gossip isn't solely designated towards women, but rather men as well, just in different forms. "Evidently gossip is not just for girls. In fact, studies generally find that both sexes change engage in it." Jumping to conclusions that men talk in order to promote their status and dominance, while asserting how competitive they are and that girls speak just to make connections, while demonstrating submissiveness and cooperation is stereotypically incorrect. These ideas make false oversimplified accusations targeted towards the true realities of language amongst men and women.

Cameron argues that "what linguistic differences there are between men and women are driven by the need to construct and project personal meaning and identity." She challenges "the idea that sex-differences might have biological rather than social causes" as being more motivated by a reaction to politically correct attitudes than being derived from basic research.

The book argues that there is as much similarity and variation within each gender as between men and women. Cameron concludes that we have an urgent need to think about gender in more complex ways than the prevailing myths and stereotypes allow.

Deborah Cameron is Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University and author of several leading texts in the field of language and gender studies.

My final topic is, The Myth of Mars and Venus. The Myth of Mars and Venus (This is the original article that I plan on adding to)

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Cameron, Deborah. The Myth of Mars and Venus. Oxford Press, 2007.

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Rapoport, Rhona, and Robert N. Rapoport. “Men, Women, and Equity.” The Family Coordinator, vol. 24, no. 4, 1975, pp. 421–432., www.jstor.org/stable/583028.

Van der Lippe, Tanja, et al. “Persistent Inequalities in Time Use between Men and Women: A Detailed Look at the Influence of Economic Circumstances, Policies, and Culture.” European Sociological Review, vol. 27, no. 2, 2011, pp. 164–179., www.jstor.org/stable/41236582.

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