The purposes of this study are to inquire the individual class students' gender- role stereotypes and to understand the influence of gender equity education curriculum on gender- role stereotypes existing among seventh grade students. The subjects are one class (18 females, 20 males) of 7th grade students in Junior High School in Kaohsiung City as the case group. Showing students¡¦ changes of gender-role stereotypes in gender equity curriculum offers some implications on adolescent¡¦s gender equity education program in the future and to draw up a well teaching project eventually. The study adopts qualitative and quantitative methods to explore subjects¡¦ gender-role stereotype condition and reaction about gender equity education curriculum. The former of which is major method including observation, interview and document analysis. The latter of which administered questionary to subjects. In this study, the gender equity education curriculum met for one 1 hour period a week, for 14 weeks. Teacher¡¦s introspection connects with student¡¦s performance would be the feedback to help researcher adjusts teaching strategy once a week. From this process the final conclusions as following: (1) Junior high school students cultivate their gender-role stereotypes with social structure and people's expectation. (2) The conflict between gender is derived from unfair evaluation comes from gender-role stereotypes. (3) Girls accept flexible gender-role behaviors, but boys don¡¦t. (4) Students are used to rationalize the social gender separation, so it is difficult for them to have gender equity view. (5) Students can enlarge their scope of gender roles by reading stories and watching. (6) After gender equity education, students have more criticize ability about gender equality concept than before. Finally, based on the research results and my introspection, we can provide valuable suggestions to school education and further study plans.

As gender stereotypes could lead to adherence to rape myths later in life, it is important to study the potential development of gender role stereotypes. Based on the theoretical approach of Bandura’s social learning, this mixed methods study sought to expand the literature on children observing gender stereotypes through film viewing. A content analysis of verbal and body language of the highest grossing animated films between 2017-2019 was conducted. The results indicated that most main characters displayed both traditional and non-traditional gender role stereotypes, which is indicative of gender role flexibility. This shows promise that there could be a moderating affect with gender role flexibility, but further research is needed. However, the results found that there was no significant difference between the amount of gender role stereotypes across all the films. It was concluded that there is still a concern for children to be indoctrinated with traditional gender role stereotypes.

A schooling system that claims to offer its students the opportunities to develop their talents and help towards self-determination in their adult lives might be expected to have a career structure itself that demonstrated these virtues, one in which there was equality of the genders in positions of influence and leadership, and no gender stereotyping of roles. Apart from the fairness and consistency of that expectation, it is also reasonable to expect the neutral template of teacher employment and textbook selection in schools. Many children may grow up with few books in their homes but lots of those in their schools. Many of the textbooks used in elementary schools, according to recent studies, contain gender stereotypes. In these, females are rarely found as central characters and when they appear at all, they are often passive figures dependent on male characters. Women are frequently shown in domestic roles / in most textbooks it is assumed that only males &#039 / go out to work&#039 / whereas daughters are the best helpers of their mothers whose sons are allowed to do what they wish. In the light of those allegations, this research is designed as a case study which addresses itself to the aim of looking into stereotyped gender role presentations existing in elementary school textbooks used by the students studying at 1st-5th grades in 2001/2002 academic year of an elementary school placed in Burdur and to see whether these students are affected by the exposure of those stereotyped gender role presentations. For this purpose, the textbooks being studied are analyzed according to pre-set categories to deduce how they include stereotyped gender role presentations and the evaluation of the effects of that exposure on students are made by asking 1st-3rd grade students to draw and 4th-5th grade students to write compositions on a given topic. This study also attempts to find out both whether Turkish elementary school teachers teaching at 1st-5th grades are aware of stereotyped gender role presentations in those textbooks that they use and their own points of view about stereotyped gender role presentations via interviews carried out with them. In conclusion, stereotyped gender role presentations are encountered in those analyzed school textbooks studied at 1st- 5th grades in 2001/2002 academic year of the elementary school placed in Burdur and the perceptions of those presentations are also obtained in the drawn and written productions of the students studied at the same school. Through the teachers&#039 / interviews, various kinds of perceptions towards gender role concept and its stereotyped presentations that take place in those textbooks are observed in their sayings