Gender stereotyping had also been visible in professional education.

There was a continuing effort to counter stereotyping in curricula and to introduce gender mainstreaming.

Overcoming gender stereotyping, present both in the Constitution and among the public, was the challenge.

Ms. Gaspard said that, even beyond legislation, political will was crucial to the elimination of gender stereotyping.

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

An aggressive effort was definitely being made to revise school textbooks and manuals to combat any gender stereotyping.

Gender stereotyping in fields of study had been sharply reduced, as female graduates now outnumbered males in most fields.

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

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

The lack of gender sensitivity in the media persists as illustrated by the failure to eliminate the gender based stereotyping that can be found in public and private local, national and international media organizations.

While women and men had almost the same access to all levels of education except for vocational education, there was gender stereotyping at the tertiary level.

Article 5 Sex Roles and Stereotyping

Article 5 Sex roles and stereotyping

Male and female students should have equal access to education and benefit from teaching methods, academic orientation, counselling and curricula free of stereotyping and unaffected by gender bias.

Administrators had taken a course aimed at helping them to reflect on their own experience of gender discrimination and stereotyping and they themselves had made new proposals to combat sexism.

In information and publicity material on foreign affairs and development cooperation, efforts are made to consistently guard against stereotyping, both with regard to gender aspects and to the donor recipient relationship.

It was of course important to ensure students learned the skills necessary for the labour market and a major reform of the senior high school system was under way, including review of textbooks to eliminate gender stereotyping.

Racist stereotyping harms the prospects of many non whites, especially those of African descent.

Most netizens expressed anger at the perpetrators by stereotyping them as Arabs and Muslims.

It is evident that on the territory of BiH there exists a great diversity in the content of the textbooks that could be characterized as gender stereotyping in pedagogic subject matter (especially in textbooks for primary and secondary education).

For almost 40 years, that era s Western feminist critique of rigid sex role stereotyping has prevailed.

The latter must make it possible to counteract existing discrimination against and cultural stereotyping of women.

Despite all efforts, women's sex roles and stereotyping remain major challenges to the implementation of the Convention.

Benefits and a family friendly environment attracted many women to the public sector, but their large presence in that sector was also due to gender segregation or stereotyping for example, women were heavily concentrated in certain sectors, such as health care, education and social work.

We allowed convenient cultural stereotyping to sustain what we believed was the expedient pursuit of our national interest.

Alarmingly, the resulting political debate has degenerated into a shrill cacophony of moral righteousness, finger pointing, scapegoating, and stereotyping.

They regretted the continued tendency of the western media in stereotyping and profiling perpetrators of terrorist acts as Muslims.

g) Eliminate negative stereotyping in all curricula and teaching materials made available to male and female students to fight discrimination against women

Stereotyping of volunteering, however, is still a feature of the media in many countries with some confusion with regard to definitions and motivations.

Emphasizing that combating hatred, prejudice, intolerance and stereotyping on the basis of religion or culture represents a significant global challenge that requires further action,

Emphasizing that combating hatred, prejudice, intolerance and stereotyping on the basis of religion or culture represents a significant global challenge that requires further action,

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

The Committee encourages the State party to continue to combat prejudice and xenophobic stereotyping, especially in the media, and fight prejudice and discriminatory attitudes.

Gender equality and gender mainstreaming

Ms. Saiga said that she, too, would like additional details on the National Coordination Committee's 10 year plan, and on any other programmes to eliminate stereotyping.

Gender equality overcoming pervasive gender bias

A variety of tools such as gender disaggregated data, gender analysis, gender responsive budgeting, gender sensitive monitoring and evaluation systems and gender sensitive indicators have proven useful.

Kazakhstan introduced classes on gender equality into higher education, including foundations of gender theory, anthology of gender research and sociology of gender.

Effective gender mainstreaming requires in house gender expertise.

In El Salvador, the NHDR 2003, dedicated to gender, produced gender disaggregated data and gender analysis.

2. Expresses its deep concern about the negative stereotyping of religions and manifestations of intolerance and discrimination in matters of religion or belief still in evidence in the world

Expresses deep concern at negative stereotyping of religions and manifestations of intolerance and discrimination in matters of religion or belief still in evidence in some regions of the world

The incitement of hatred and stereotyping must be done away with altogether. We should think twice about the use of video games with simulated scenes of violence among children.

It was especially significant for women to be put on an equal footing with men in the political field and in decision making positions, and stereotyping should be resisted.

Goal 3 Gender Equality and Perspectives More comprehensive approaches to gender with clear indicators for gender perspectives.