How does early Socialisation to Gender Stereotypes lead to Sexual Harassment?

By: Marthe Wittkamp

Early association to gender-based stereotypes create prejudices that can hold up throughout a person’s entire life. Gender-based expectations start at an early age and are perpetuated through peer pressure and society, leading to biases and stereotypes towards all genders. Once biases have formed, they are hard to eradicate, which results in both genders accepting and expecting certain behaviour from the other … (read more)