The Female Stereotype

Stereotypes have been a part of society for a very long time and are still present today. Both Svava Jakobsdottir’s "A Story for Children" and Alice Munro’s "The Office" share a common stereotype regarding the female gender. The female stereotype is the most concrete of all stereotypes which explains why both short stories possess a very similar nature for a typical woman. This stereotypical female is expected to have a delicate character, to …

…of the dainty character, the responsibility of house work and child rearing, the absence of an identity, and the simple existence with inferior status. Both Jakobsdotter and Munro portrayed a very realistic female stereotype that has been around for along time. The female stereotype is a very well known label to all individuals. The critical part of stereotypes is not the number of people who know about the stereotypes, but how many people believe them.