Sexism and gender stereotyping is in the air. Women are still looked down upon as the weaker sex. People still think women are more emotional than men, and really suck at keeping secrets. But all these “myths” are not true at all, according to science. Science tells us that women are unique people, each one of them different, and just because they have been portrayed in a way in popular media, we tend to generalize that for the whole women fraternity. Women love to settle down, marry and have kids. Men are reckless, sleep around, and are not serious about relationships at all. Women are the ones who love to get serious in relationships. But actually, men are the ones who want to settle more than women and women crave for independence in relationships rather than kids. Social scientists say that this is because the line between gender roles has been blurring for the past few decades.

Women are gentle creatures who are not violent or aggressive at all

It is conventionally accepted that men are more aggressive than women. In a way it is true.

But in a study, where women were given anonymous identities and were asked to drop bombs in a video game, they bombed 5 times more than even the more aggressive men.

The reason behind this, scientists say that the anonymity takes the social pressure to behave away from them, and they turn out to be awesome killing machines.

Women are the exclusive sufferers of domestic violence

This is a stereotype people do not want to mess with because it is controversial. But hundreds of studies show that women are just as aggressive and violent and abusive in marriages.

But everyone still thinks that it is the men who are completely at fault here, and again, it is because of the societal conformity we think this is true.

I am pretty sure we are still going to turn a blind eye on this statistic, just because it is too controversial to accept.