Color Coded Stereotypes

Gender Stereotypes Among Children's Toys       When you walk into the toy section of any store, you do not need a sign to indicate which section is the girls’ side and which section is the boys’ side. Aside from all the pink, purple, and other pastel colors that fill the shelves

Throughout the history of society, women and men both have faced the constricting roles forced upon them, from a young age; each gender is given specific social and cultural roles to play out throughout their lives. Little girls are given dolls and kitchen toys, little boys are given dinosaurs and power tool toys, if one was to step out of this specified role, social conflict would ensue. Contrast to popular belief, sex is a biological construct, and gender is a social construct specifying the roles men and women are to follow to be accepted into society as “normal”. The effects of gender roles have had on women have proved harmful over the decades. Although the woman’s involvement in society has improved throughout the decades,

• The expectation that Within the American culture, our youth are taught that the masculine roles of the male has traditionally been associated with their role of being strong and dominant and the feminine role of a female has traditionally been associated with their role of being the follower and the nurturer. Children learn the gender roles beginning at birth through the socialization process. Historically our society has always identified male infants with blue and female infants with pink, however, with the turning of the 20th century more neutral colors are being thrown into the mix. More expecting parents are adventuring away from traditional blue and pink and choosing the neutral colors such as green and yellow. Children learn gender socialization through family members, education, other children and social media. Each reinforces the gender role by displaying and maintaining the normal expectation for each genders behavior. Our youth are taught at an early age of the separate expectations of each gender. Parents often teach the role not knowingly but through association. Boys are associated with trucks, toy guns and superheroes that teach them motor skills and independence, whereas the girls are associated with baby dolls, dress costumes, and toy kitchens which teaches them nurturing and social

Despite the fact that the precise nature of gender relations differs among societies, the common pattern is that females are traditionally regarded to be more caring,

Yesterday, I was playing Xbox with my friend, Anja. On my left side stood my laptop connected to a small speaker. I put on a song on Spotify, and leant back to look at the TV-screen. We listened to some other songs, until my mother came home and I had to turn it off to ask her something. When I was done talking to her, I sat back in the couch without putting on the music again. After about five minutes, a song howled out of the speaker with no one around the laptop to put it on play. My friend and I looked around like Timon from the Lion King and we were freaked out by the situation. I told Anja about another time something like this happened, when I was home alone in my room to put some make-up on. I put a song on my stereo from my Spotify

This article will immensely add to my paragraph on childhood gender roles. "Children 's Gender Identity Development: The Dynamic Negotiation Process Between Conformity and Authenticity” provides evidence that child are indeed aware of the stereotypes that come with gender, and allow that knowledge to effect their everyday lives.

It is important for educators to understand issues of diversity and difference to ensure no students are disadvantaged and all students are treated equally. While the Australian Government provides educators with curricula, the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) for Kindergarten educators and the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)

Imagine, a world where you cannot vote, hold a job, or even walk down the street without another person’s permission? That is what it would have been like, if you were born as a female around the early 1900’s. Flash forward almost a century later and women

Today it is seen as more socially acceptable for women to assume roles that are defined as traditionally masculine than it is for men to assume roles that are defined as feminine. In my opinion, this is based on stereotypical roles that have been placed by parents when babies are born – stemming from their own parent’s stereotypical and traditional roles that have been modeled and observed by them personally. For example, at a very young age, children notice whether their mother will stay at home or work and viscera what their father does. Another example, for the majority I would say that once a couple finds out their baby’s gender the nursery room tends to painted in such a way based on whether the baby is male or female. Including, toys

Should Children Be Exposed To Gender Roles? In modern day America there is an ongoing disagreement between people of all ages about the topic of gender roles in children. According to Barrie Thorne and Zella Luria, the word gender is used to refer to “cultural and social phenomena- divisions of labor,

The same with dolls, kitchen sets, and dress up clothes. We have very successful men who are fashion designers, chefs, and fathers. Gender culture sets limits on what industries think girls or boy will be interested in or want to play with. Thinking of children in only a gender manner and not an individual manner is simple minded. Industries need to gear their toys towards both genders so that children can make the decision on their own if it is something that interests them. I think that having non-stereotyped gender schemes would greatly affect our future by allowing children to just be children and explore and play as they please and believe in themselves to be able to be anything they want to be when they grow up regardless of their gender. I think if will affect the way they see the world and themselves and build up their self-esteem. I would tell someone is buying a toy for a young child to look at the age group and think about the kinds of thing that the child is interested in exploring and go by that instead of trying to fit into the social norms of boy and girl

Hello Darlene, I really enjoyed your post as you gave really good explanations and went straight to the point. I definitely agree with you I believe gender roles are set up by society. We can see this as when we grow up they tell us we can't play with trucks or dress like a superhero because that's for boys. But toys don't say they are made for a specific sex and we can see how society plays a role in this topic. Great post!

One wonders, however, how much influence a child's peers have on their understanding of, and adherence to, gender roles. It's certainly important for parents to challenge gender stereotypes, but unless the rest of the world joins in, children are going to be faced with, say, classmates who pull a truck from a girl's hands and yell, "This is a boy's toy!" or science and math teachers who overlook a girl's contributions to the class, or fail to encourage her to participate, due to an ingrained belief that women do not excel in these fields. Perhaps the best anyone can do, as Eliot notes, is to just try to provide kids with as equal a playing ground as possible: ""I don't want to be accused of saying it's all environment and it's all parents,

I agree that society has always and will always stereotype gender. Our media has a lot to do with how each gender is portrayed and even though times have changed, many things still are the same. Women are sexualized through the media and they make it seem like it is ok. Men are seen as the ones who make the money and can have successful careers. We also see it among each other, in our children and in our schools. Children are often set to believe that pink is for girls and blue is for boys, and that is the rule. Also stores have put labels on the toys, girl toys and boy toys. I think it makes it difficult for children to be open about what they like because they almost feel like they are not allowed to do so since it is for the opposite sex.

A child’s main gender role influence comes from parents; their sense of self concept results from the ideas, behaviors, attitudes and values that they are exposed to from early on in their development. Children begin to see how the parents view gender, their approval or disapproval of the child’s behavior and how certain behavior is reinforced. Two areas in which related issues could be introduced in early childhood and elementary education are gender role expectations and families (Meyer, 2010). Units on families are common at this level, and gender roles are taught and reinforced through the informal curriculum of preschool and elementary schools. In education, the