Gender Stereotypes in the Pakistani Novels

Males and females have been assigned different roles in the society. They have to play the roles while representing their gender in their age limits. The novelists and writers like Bapsi Sidhwa and Qaisra Shahraz tried their best to highlight the issue of gender stereotypes in their writings. They gave the portrayal of real gender stereotype in their novels. The purpose of this research was to explore the explore gender stereotypes in the novels: "The Holy Woman" and "The Pakistani Bride". We took these two novels as a sample of study and selected some paragraphs from them to identify gender stereotypes words, which represent the male and female gender. We also explored nouns and pronouns relating to gender stereotypes. The final thing was to explore the types gender like cultural discrimination in these novels. We found that there are a lot of gender stereotypes words on the basis of nouns and pronouns. The type of gender stereotype in the novel is cultural.