Study of effect of Gender Stereotyping leads to Misrecognition of One’s Own Identity

Abstract

The paper titled ‘Gender stereotyping leads to misrecognition of one’s own identity’ is based on a Youtube series named ‘Man’s World’ by Y-Films Original, presented by The Global Goals For Sustainable Development (United Nations) having a tie-up with India’s most reputed production house, Yash Raj Films. The series ‘Man’s World’  "is a what if story. It is a story about walking in the shoes of women, in that world. The series supports Goal Five of the UN’s Global Goals for Sustainable Development which is about achieving Gender Equality and empowering all girls and women, everywhere."  The aim of this paper is not about achieving the goal of gender equality but to show that gender stereotyping often leads to misrecognition of one’s own identity, that is, it leads to a sense of identity which is not one’s own but assigned by the society. One can argue that in the very first place, identity is never one’s own, instead we get a sense of our identity, our “self” by looking at the other. True, but there is also the idea of self-realization of our identity, when we recognize our true ‘self’ and not the one which is assigned to us by the society, not how society looks at us as just male or female particularly, but how we look at ourselves as an individual.