Andrei Cimpian's Views On Gender Stereotypes

The genderization process begins before a child is even born. Go into :1 store in the United States to buy a present for a newborn baby, and you will immediately be asked "boy or girl?" (Eckert & McConnell-Ginet 738) As the child gets older, they

Although, gender typing might be considered an external factor, gender schema theory suggests that children are pre-programmed to construct or establish beliefs about the sexes. The child will formulate gender-stereotyped preferences and demeanors from others. One example could be picture day at school and the child formulates that girls wear dresses and boys wear slacks by observing those around them. Another example can be when children are on the playground where girls are more likely to be seen playing house and boys playing war. Since gender schema theory is an information processing approach, it further explains that environmental strains and a child’s cognitions work together to pattern gender-role evolution.

In addition to common classroom bias, sexualization is another piece of the puzzle. When a young girl is sexualized by her peers and even people older than her, including her teachers, it pressures the young girl into the idea that looks are a more important trait than intelligence, kindness, and creativity. “The multifaceted process of sexualization occurs when an individual’s value and worth come solely from his or her sexual appeal or potential, one is objectified or regarded as an item for another’s sexual use, an individual is held to a narrow standard that equates attractiveness with sexiness, or sexuality is inappropriately imposed upon an individual” (Moloney &

The problem begins back in early childhood. Children are so innocently blind that they do not realize that occupational sex segregation appears in their every day life. An example of this is shown in Nemerowicz’s book, Children’s Perception of Gender and Work Roles. Nemerowicz asked fourth grade children to draw a man at work and a woman at work. Eighty-six percent of the pictures showed men in jobs associated with power and labour of some kind (Mackie, 1990). Men were drawn as construction workers, policemen, firemen, doctors and businessmen. On the other hand, women were shown as housekeepers, nurses, cashiers and secretaries. Using Nemerowicz’s results it is safe to say that children had to have learned occupational sex segregation somewhere. Was it their parents, their teachers or their toys that had this stereotypical affect on them? Since early sex segregation like this occurs, differences between men and women in a child’s future work environment are imminent.

This article, “No Way My Boys Are Going To Be Like That,” converses that young children are becoming aware of gender processing, which means

Young girls are growing up too fast in today’s society due to the media and not having a stable

They have a hard time finding who they are as a person. Adolescence is a period of time where kids are putting into circumstance that are hard to understand until they go through them hardship themselves. In “Saplings in the Storm” girls were analyzed to give better understanding of girl’s emotion when they are going through adolescence. Stated in the article, “In early adolescence, studies show that girls’ IQ scores drop and their resiliency and optimism and become less curious and inclined to take risks. They lose their assertive, energetic and “tomboyish” personalities and come more deferential, self- critical and depressed” (19). Girls try to fit the social stands of being a “girl” and in the end they bring themselves down mentally. Adults don’t understand the social stand because they aren’t completely the same anymore. In today’s society girls have to grow up so fast. Girls start wearing makeup at a young age, start wearing scandalize clothes, and have sexual encounters early. Having to go through all these mild stones may make it hard to be themselves and have

As before stated, children as young as age four already have the ability to comprehend whether a specific item is market towards males, or marketed towards females, just by the external appearance. That statement means that concepts as seemingly abstract as masculinity and femininity, have already been clearly defined to these children,

children grow up in different places, the conflicting ideals and habits of the two are inevitable.

From the time an infant is born, gender is defined and continues so throughout childhood. Girls wore dresses and boys wore pants. They begin to follow what their same-sex parent does. Women tend to

From the moment babies are born, they are already categories into which gender behavior they would soon perform. An example provide from the text book, ‘‘Social and Personality Development, the sixth edition’’, of how parents would start to call their baby boy ‘‘big guy’’ or ‘‘tiger’’ in terms of the child more masculine behavior that would later appear. Also how parents would also call their baby girl, such as ‘‘sweetie’’ or ‘‘sugar’’ because that’s who girls should be viewed as, all sweet and soft. As children get older, around the age of 2 to 3, the idea of sexes and gender hasn’t become very clear to them, but seem to be able to understand the gender labels which leads to gender stereotyping. So at that age, their fully aware if their labeled

From birth, the difference between males and females is evident. Immediately we toss children into gender roles in order to ease our minds

Particularly, children around the age of 3, start to identify themselves as female or male. While working as a pre-school teacher for 3-4-year-olds, I remember how girls and boys would play separately. Also, the little girls would play with dolls and pretend

The traits perceived to be possessed by certain gender identities are instilled to the children while they are growing as the society have strong influence over the preferences and the behaviors of the young ones in that by influencing the interest of children they bring them up in a manner that the children start stereotyping before even they know what the stereotypes actually are since they have been brought up in an environment that they have known that certain traits or activities are appropriate or inappropriate for them. They then tend to internalize and that becomes the way to go or do things in their whole life.

The first 20 years in the life of a female are the most important for cognitive development. During these critical years, the limbic system, which controls the emotional control of the brain, is growing and they are likely to feel more emotional than normal. Females are most influenced during this time due to the incomplete limbic system, hormones and the desire to discover themselves; a time otherwise known as adolescence. These years become the building block to the person they will become; it is important that they surround themselves with people that are a positive influence and an environment that fosters growth. Unfortunately for many females, this is not the case. Everywhere you look, there are harmful messages that teach girls