مجلة الرسالة للدراسات والبحوث الإنسانية
Volume 8, Numéro 1, Pages 1145-1157
2023-04-30

Exploring Teachers’ Stereotyped Gender Perceptions In The Algerian Culture. The Case Of Ouargla Secondary School Teachers

Authors : Bouzida Taous . Yassine Souryana .

Abstract

This research investigates secondary school teachers’ gender perceptions and attempts to uncover gender stereotypes. Adopting Grounded Theory methodology and using interviews, twenty-two secondary school Algerian teachers are questioned about their gender perceptions. The results show that gender is perceived as a set of societal norms and structures that determine how individuals are as women or men. The research highlighted two dichotomous gender stereotypes that oppose maths versus languages as fields of competence and outdoor versus indoor spaces as space divided on gender basis. It is significant to unveil gender stereotypes as it raises awareness about their existence and mainly about their altering effect on the attainment of gender equality in education that consists of a non equal binary division in society on gender basis.

Keywords

education ; fields of competence ; gender equality ; gender perceptions ; gender stereotypes ; space division