The major part of women’s problems in the family are conditioned by gender stereotypes. Lawyer Nvard Piliposyan said this during a roundtable discussion on the “Prospects of Strengthening the Mechanisms for the Protection of Women’s Rights in Armenia” which took place on 12July.

According to her, gender is a social phenomenon of sex. “When we speak about gender stereotypes, these are stereotypes conditioned by perceptions of the gender rather than by the sex. For example, if we talk that a woman can have a baby, that is her sex-derived function, and if we talk about the fact that a woman should be meek, modest, or wear certain clothing, this is a social idea that has nothing to do with physiological peculiarities,” the lawyer said.

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