When women were marching in the Women's Suffrage Movement in 1913, could they possibly have envisioned that in the year 2010, women would still be battling the stereotypes that they had fought against. Woman. Doll. Babe. Bitch. Ho. Dyke. Butch. These are words that are thrown around today by our youth and even by those who we see as "in power." Hillary Clinton has been called a number of derogatory terms, and it is important to really peel back the layers and see what is at the core of female stereotyping. Is it simply man's tool to keep women in a role beneath them? Why do some women seemingly embrace their stereotypes? Let's endeavor not only to understand where these stereotypes come from, but also how to eradicate them.

Our group consists of Jenny, Eboni, and Tamika.

We are women of different nationalities, ages, and life experiences, who have each experienced being the object of stereotypes in our own lives.

We chose this topic because, as women, we feel strongly that popular culture should not perpetuate stereotypes. We have broken this project into three different groups of women: Arab Americans, lesbians, and wealthy women. Within each group of women, we will apply common stereotypes to events and people in popular culture and analyze whether popular culture perpetuates or challenges the stereotypes. We chose these groups of women because we are familiar with these stereotypes, and we felt that examining these very different categories would enable us to really dive into why female stereotypes are still so strong in popular culture.