People often think that all nurses are female or all builders are men. But this is wrong. What do we call such ideas?

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Not too long ago, all nurses were women and all doctors were men. That was so long ago that children were having to work too! We have long since moved away from such primitive roles. If you are a boy it’s OK to be a dancer or a cook, and girls can be engineers or builders too. 

Today, men and women can do any job they set their minds to. However, some people still hang on to their belief that some jobs should only be done by one gender. We call these views “prejudice”.
 


People often think that all nurses are female or all builders are men. But this is wrong. What do we call such ideas?





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