Gender stereotypes, defined as socially shared beliefs about the characteristics that have women and men, which is often applied indiscriminately to all members of these two groups (Morales, Moya, Gaviria & Cuadrado, 2007 ) are the basis on which subjects articulate the basis of codes existence and identity categories assigned by culture (Lagarde ,1998).

This set of beliefs implies the existence of a dichotomy of personality traits, roles, physical characteristics and occupations that are traditionally associated with men and women (Deaux & Lewis, 1983), and have a great influence on the individual in his perception of the world and of himself and his behavior.

It is important to note that these stereotypes are based on prejudices that affect both men and women have the character descriptive and prescriptive. Every time a person learns is "child" or that is "girl", will also learn what is appropriate behavior for that self-categorization, following the cultural requirements associated with their sex. When men or women do not meet the requirements of gender, their behavior is often criticized and rejected socially (Instituto de la Mujer & CIDE , 2003)

Nosek, Banajiy & Geendwald (2002) found that boys and girls are still favored by profession consistent with the prototypical image of different professional areas, and can create inconsistencies between what you do - because you do or because it produces a great satisfaction - and what other people regard as the most appropriate environment.

The obtained results by Colas and Villaciervos (2007) indicate a high internalization of cultural patterns of gender (stereotyping gender) on youth and adolescents. Sanchez et al (2011 ) found that the presence of gender stereotypes in people is lower the higher the age the higher the educational level, and is higher the lower is the age and lower educational level. The main findings by Alvariñas et al (2009) suggest that there are some clear gender stereotypes among the students analyzed, however it seems that this profile is changing.

At the university, Montes et al (2011) observed some changes in the stereotypes that each gender group is assigned, finding both women and men a greater identification with positive stereotypes associated with the group of otherwise gender and less identification with negative stereotypes associated with gender group they belong to.

The objective of the present study was to investigate the perceptions of Galician health vocational training students about gender stereotypes.

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