Advances achieved in education policies have been directed at challenging the stereotypes of male and female roles through curricular revision and control over the content of didactic books.

Gender Stereotypes within School Books

If cultural stereotypes conditioned men to participate less than women in child and family care, women would have no real choice until those stereotypes were eliminated.

The answer, however, does not lie in easy stereotypes about some clash of civilizations.

Efforts being made to eliminate stereotypes against both men and women are

Gender stereotypes were also persistent, with women seen as keepers of the household.

Other measures included teacher training programmes and the revision of textbooks in order to eliminate stereotypes.

The educational programme to eliminate gender stereotypes suffered from a lack of resources and teachers.

The Committee examined gender stereotypes in schoolbooks used by the Israeli education system, and endeavored to end all stereotyping in the curriculum.

The curriculum focuses on exposing gender stereotypes, changing positions, developing unique abilities, and providing knowledge.

The Government is taking steps to raise public awareness of processes that perpetuate existing sexual stereotypes.

One positive step had been the combating of gender stereotyping in the schools and in adult education courses.

In some mountainous regions of the country, the established stereotypes that hold that sports are not for women have yet to be overcome.

Ms. Belmihoub Zerdani observed that the members of the delegation showed determination and courage in overcoming stereotypes.

A critical goal of this project is to help break stereotypes and create a more nuanced understanding of Muslim societies.

At that time it was concerned about the persistence of entrenched traditional stereotypes regarding the role and responsibilities of women and men in the family .

The proliferation of sources and channels of information, instead of promoting a better understanding among peoples, have reinforced stereotypes and deepened misperceptions.

She wondered if the Government was also actively combating stereotypes by steering women towards non traditional career choices.

Stereotypes about desirable occupations and professions for men and women are still deep rooted.

The mass media were being encouraged to combat existing stereotypes under the project entitled Mass Media (re) Distribution of Power .

An important contribution to changing the gender stereotypes among rural residents is being made by development programmes of international and local non governmental organizations that provide training, consulting, and financial and material technical services to support women's businesses in rural areas.

Ms. Dairiam said that sexual stereotyping governed the behaviour of both men and women and assigned specific roles and responsibilities to each gender.

Sexual harassment was a complex phenomenon that was due mainly to sexist stereotypes, and it had very serious consequences for the future of the society.

Education and training programmes and critical reviews of school curricula, textbooks and other information and communication materials are important means of challenging stereotypes or rigid models of masculinity and femininity and to providing alternatives to stereotypic male identities and relationships.

I will also be encouraging YouTubers to help me out and address some of these stereotypes so I will be relying on your skills and creativity so that we can all get this right.

We also need to point out that the violent stereotypes that have stigmatized young people for so long were countered by the mere presence of all of us in this forum.

She acknowledged that gender based stereotypes still existed in her country, because women had historically been taught that they were inferior to men.

Lastly, she was curious to know how the media reflected the issue and what it was doing to help combat negative stereotypes.

(b) To combat stereotypes, prejudices and harmful practices relating to persons with disabilities, including those based on sex and age, in all areas of life

Russia has tried for years to get away from Cold War thinking and to persuade our partners to drop their stereotypes.

We also encourage full gender equality, which will eliminate stereotypes of the image of women in order to allow egalitarian access to education and employment for women.

Unfortunately, that was not the case, as evidenced by the widespread persistence of discriminatory cultural stereotypes in Benin.

Under that project, aimed at eliminating stereotypes and creating equal employment opportunities for men and women, training seminars were offered to representatives of labour and management.

The Committee noted the actions taken by the Government to encourage girls to subscribe to more technical training courses and to address sex stereotypes in education.

Recommendation No. 6 calls for the elimination of the traditional stereotypes for family roles and to provide encouragement for the media to project a positive image of women.

Queen Rania has launched an official YouTube page, with an exclusive message on the importance of cross cultural dialogue in breaking down stereotypes.You can visit Her Majesty's page at http youtube.com QueenRania.

She hoped that the next report would also include statistics showing progress, for instance, in eliminating stereotypes in education and the media.

For a book to be approved and recommended, it is not enough that the book avoid negative stereotypes and content the book must have a positive content.

Without such an approach, increased awareness of victimization could have the positive effect of creating empathy and understanding, but the negative effect of reinforcing stereotypes of women as helpless.

Over that period, we have educated a small cohort of young Roma who retain their identity and yet can break the hostile stereotypes held by those with whom they interact.

Ms. Arocha Dominguez said that concerted action by the Government, society and individual citizens was needed to eliminate stereotypes in a country where traditional practices persisted.

Unless all Turkana people are homicidal cattle rustlers, how does such stereotyping advance the cause of professional journalism, much less promote tolerance in Kenya?

Remember, this is about Arab stereotypes, and Arabs differ in culture, politics, economics and even religious standards having the Queen of Jordan address these questions with a broad brush may be tricky.

In the rural area, where many women did not attend school, was the Government supporting the activities of NGOs with a view to eliminating stereotypes?

In this context, the important responsibility of the media in breaking down gender stereotypes and promoting positive examples of women's equality is obvious.