Diversity model

• Jenny Cook-Gumprez (1990)


  Recorded a conversation among trio of three-year olds in a kindergarten class. The girls were playing house and casting themselves as the mothers and the dolls as their babies. They acted out domestic scenarios

  In the recordings, the three girls give their babies baths, and when one of them says that the water is hot, another says lets boiled babies, her friend responds. Yes, let's boil them and boil them.
• Lisa Huebner (2017)


  We need to reject the idea that women are always naturally and biologicaly able to feel, express and manage our emotions better than men, and should be responsible for doing so. Some people are better at handling emotions than others because of their individual personalities, but she would argue that we still have no firm evidence that this ability is biologically determined
• Judith Butler - Gender performativity theory


  Difference between sex and gender - Gender as a social construction- Gender as an identity made by culture - Gender is a performance or a ritual that we all agree to as a society, and learn how to do from seeing others do it - Heteronormative behaviours are shown to us through the media and through others that we see in society - Stereotypes contribute to this All of this upholds the patriarchy
• Deborah Cameron (2007)- Diversity Model


  'Difference is a myth' - The diversity model is the idea that there is no biological difference, only one that is constructed by society
• Deborah Cameron


  Cameron's research focuses on the relationship between language and gender and how it is affected by society. She challenges the idea that men and women speak different languages and believes that any noticeable language differences in gender are due to the expectations placed on us by society - not biological factors