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Gender Stereotypes In The Movie High School Musical
Gender stereotypes are a serious problem within the society. Gender role stereotypes are defined as how people think a male or a female should act. Every age group is faced with a handful of stereotypes, but there is one particular age group that faces gender stereotypes a bit more harshly than others, that age group is high schoolers. The Disney Channel’s original movie High School Musical portrays a dramatic version of certain gender stereotypes such as: the jock (Troy Bolton), the nerdy girl (Gabriela Montez), and the theater groupie (Sharpay Evans). In this movie, the students of East High are faced with target based expectancies, which is how one perceives a person based on a small amount of information on that person. Troy and Gabriela
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