Gender_Identity

Gender Identity Your gender identity is your personal sense of being either male of female. It forms such a central part of your self concept, and I so resistant to change that you might have assumed that you were born with it. In fact however there are few biological connections between sex and behavior, and it is more openly accepted that for the most part children are not born with gender roles, but are rather placed in them by societal beliefs. For this reason most people reject theories of sex role development including biological and general schema approaches. Just imagine walking into a nursery decorated with dinosaurs, trucks and bright red and blue paint, isn’t it easy to assume that the baby in the room is a boy' And likewise when walking into a different nursery and seeing dolls, and light blues pinks and yellows, wouldn’t you feel safe in assuming that a baby girl lived there' Children don’t necessarily recognize their gender roles until as early as age two, but are subject to stereotypes for their entire lives. In this way children learn, as they get older, what kinds of behaviors are expected of boys and girls in their gender, identity, stage, period, children, time, father, begin, sex, role, certain, boy, mother, latency, during, ways, way, tend, sexual, girls, freud, therefore, resolution, phallic, life, feel, development, conflict, complex, child, boys, women, very, little, identity, however, baby