Abstract
The study involved the determination of attitudes toward gender (stereotypes and subjective meanings) in a group of women, who underwent corrective plastic surgery to change their body’s proportions in a private clinic in Prague. The research sample was made up of 35 middle- class women (based on income), who worked and lived long- term in Prague.
Results of the research have shown that the sample embodied masculine characteristics, which are related to productivity, entrepreneurialism and efficiency. Conception of their own gender characteristics are also in accord with conception of man in population.
But we could resume these gender characteristics as ideal or real yet. It can be said that an active lifestyle (exercise) in order to impact physical proportions was generally lacking in this group.
They prefer passive way to fix their body’s proportions.