Ha ha ha, that's a good one! Thanks for the laugh. You don't need empirical studies to see how deeply gender stereotypes are ingrained in US culture. The evidence of it is literally everywhere. Children as young as two years old know what kinds of toys they are expected to play with and which ones their parents are less likely to approve of (even if they are ostensibly progressive and wish to raise their children in gender-neutral ways).
Even today, although things are marginally better, children's books, TV shows, and educational materials still reinforce these stereotypes and women who work both inside and outside the home grapple with the repercussions of them every day.
This can be done by something as simple and unassailable as counting the number of characters and noting their genders, counting the number of lines they each have, etc. Even if movies that are ostensibly about women, men still overwhelming have more lines.
The United Nations education agency Unesco says that messages undermining girls' confidence and expectations of life are so prevalent in educational materials worldwide that they present a “hidden obstacle” to gender equality. This doesn't just happen in other countries. It happens here and in other industrial nations as well.
Men also are well aware of the roles and stereotypes that they are expected to embody and uphold.
And, I've already spent too much time here, because if you honestly believe that there isn't still a very significant level of gender stereotyping in the US, it's not likely you will be swayed by me.
