Gender

Gender Children learn gender roles In reading Katha Pollitt’s “Why Boy’s Don’t Play with Dolls” it showed how she has seen gender roles in her life. Her essay brings up many good points that need to be addressed in the future, but I believe you can only take one step at a time. I think that there are still gender roles today, but that they are becoming more insignificant. I believe most gender roles are learned by children from their parents and in the school systems. Children learn at a very early age what it means to be a boy or girl in our society. With all the gender stereotypes and biases, it is no wonder that sex segregation exists. During childhood, children are exposed to many factors that influence their attitudes and behaviors regarding gender roles. These attitudes are learned in the home, in schools, and even at the playground where children play among their peers. From the time they are born, children have already been assigned a gender. Blue blankets are used for baby boys, and pink ones for girls. It is difficult for a child to grow up without experiencing some form of gender bias or stereotyping. When gender, boys, girls, children, roles, sex, sports, school, scholarships, play, differences, believe, women, typical, learn, being, two, teachers, stereotypes, sit, separate, parents, one, maccoby, girl, exist, even, don’t, boy, between, behaviors, been, against, about, trying, time, thorne, take, separately, segregation, seen, schools, scholarship, same, result, research, reported, parents', out, neat, mostly