Factors That Affect Results Linked With Juvenile Gender Noncompliant

In her essay titled “Toxic Masculinity is Killing Men: The Roots of Male Trauma,” Kali Holloway uses scientific data to and evidence to state that gender stereotypes and roles are killing men. Holloway’s essay is a wake up call to today’s society that says we as parents, siblings, teachers, and anyone else who comes into contact to children who are young and impressionable, need to raise boys and girls the same way to prevent and eliminate gender roles and stereotypes.

Parents of these children are not supporting their decisions of who they desire to be, leaning towards the sex of being more feminine (regarding female) or masculine (regarding male). As young as pre-school, children begin to show their common interests such as; playing with dolls, trucks, dressing up as princesses, building sky scrapers, playing with action figures, etc. This article mentions, depending on what they child plays with or how the child acts shows the risk of gender assessment. For example, this article is trying to say that if a young boy plays with a doll or dresses like a princess he

2. Risman and Seale write about middle schoolers and their beliefs about gender. How did they collect their data? Who was their main source of information? What questions were Risman and Seale raising by their research on middle schoolers? In what ways are their answers of value? (Chapter 34 Barbara J. Risman and Elizabeth Seale: “Betwixt and Be Tween: Gender Contradictions Among Middle Schoolers”)

How we learn gender is part of gender socialization. It begins the moment we are born and continues till the end of our life. We are exposed to many factors that may influence our gender identity. Some of the factors are, media, our experience in school and our parents. In Martin & Kazyak’s essay titled “Hetero-Romantic Love and Hetereosexiness”, he explains how the media plays a part in shaping a child’s gender identity. In Thorne’s essay titled “Girls and Boys together…” he explores how sex segregation occurs predominantly in elementary school. In the film “Tough Guise”, Katz explains that men aren’t naturally violent but are taught to be so. And lastly, in Cornell’s essay titled “Masculinities and Globalization” he says that there are

By now, you've probably heard there's a "war against boys" in America. The latest heavily-hyped right-wing fusillade against feminism, led by Christina Hoff Sommers's new book of that title, claims that men are now the second sex and that boys--not girls--are the ones who are in serious trouble, the "victims" of "misguided" feminist efforts to protect and promote girls' development. At the same time, best-selling books by therapists, like William Pollack's Real Boys and Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson's Raising Cain, also sound the same tocsin, warning of alarming levels of depression and suicide among boys, and describing boys' interior lives as an emotionally barren

2. Some methodologies used by the author include correlative research and experimental research. Correlative research is used because the author examines how, because females are less able to regulate hormones they, correlatively, are less able to release hormones that could help them from becoming depressed. Thus, a correlation can be found in the rate of depression to the amount of stressors placed on females and their biological inability to regulate them effectively. Experimental research is used in the way that certain behaviors were studied in both females and males, then compared to each other to determine a solution to a gender specific issue. Experimentation is also used in the analyzing of females’ ability to cope with sexual assault and how it retards the developmental processes in the emotional and social fields.

90). The fixed characteristics may serve as covariates and the modifiable characteristics may be affected due to the interventions of the study. The study explains that the modifiable characteristics of physiological symptoms of the patient, social/spiritual needs of patient/caregiver dyad, and psychological symptoms of the patient/caregiver dyad may be modified due to the careful assessment received (McMillan et al., 2011, p. 90).

Mental health decides differences between male and female offenders since the early stage of juvenile offenses. More than male juveniles, females who build a criminal record from a young age

Females are said to be very emotional and if they were troublemakers at a young age they are said to possess “masculine traits and characteristics” (Siegal & Walsh, 2015). Males tend to commit crimes like robbery, assault and burglary. This has changed in the last decade. The rate of offending has decreased for males by 27 percent and females about 15 percent. “Girls have increased their

Gender should not be intertwined with the term sex, which refers to the physical differences in individuals. Instead, gender is the idea of being male or female, and it is well understood by the time children reach the preschool years. Differences in gender become more pronounced as children age, and societal expectations are reinforced by parents and peers. Behavioral differences may be evident since parents may treat their child differently according to gender. A big example of this is how parents may react to a child’s first

Leahy and Eiter (1980) found that among the 13 and 17 year old girls more post conventional use was related to a more masculine real self image and less disparity between their feminine self-images. For females at all the ages, higher moral judgment was associated with either of the self-images having opposite sex characteristics/more androgyny (Leahy & Eiter, 1980). It appeared that only when males got to college did higher post conventional scores correlate with low disparity between real and ideal feminine self-image (Leahy & Eiter, 1980). The general pattern also showed that masculine traits became the most desirable for both males and college age females (Leahy & Eiter, 1980).

In addition, a study was done on children ages 4, 6, and 8 to test flexibility about gender and parental influences. Assessments were focused around gender constancy, judgments about gender norms; results showed that younger children were more rigid than older children, showing parental influence is present (Cyphers, Lisa)(Conry-Murray, Clare).

The findings for insecure gender identity demonstrated strong support related to the tendency to harass gender-atypical individuals (Pauletti et al., 2014). Consistent with the hypothesis, children who possessed strong gender biases, demonstrated a lack of self-worth, or viewed themselves as inconsistent with their gender experienced a self-discrepancy that was associated with anxiety and frustration and focused their insecure feelings towards their gender-nonconforming peers (Pauletti et al., 2014). Additionally, children who reported felt pressure for gender differentiation but perceived themselves as gender-atypical displayed aggressive behaviors toward non-conforming peers (Pauletti et al., 2014). Similarly, children who possessed low within-gender identity (experience discontent with their gender) and lacked self-efficacy and self-worth increasingly singled out their

Gender nonconforming boys are expected to dress and appear in a way that fits their gender role (Toomey et al., 2010). For example, boys are supposed to dress in masculine clothes, such as pants and basketball shorts and should have short hairstyles (P.P., 2017). In a study conducted by Blakemore (2003), researchers found that boys who dressed in girls’ clothing were perceived as very negative. Researchers also found that boys who violated the gender role of physical appearance, for example, clothing or hairstyle, would be perceived more negatively than girls. Physical appearance is one of the most key factors in building relationships, therefore, people who are perceived as unusual from their assigned gender role have a harder time building those relationships (Adler, Kless & Adler, 1992). Therefore, students who are perceived as out of the ordinary can lead to students being victimized in school (Pacer Centers Teens Against Bullying, 2017).

However, people’s perception of gender due to society ignores these findings. Women who exhibit agency, or assertiveness in the workplace, are considerably less likely to be hired for a job than a man who has the same traits or a woman who is sensitive and motherly (Shibley Hyde). Gender stereotypes also affect young men in an even harsher way. Society believes that girls are more sensitive and more likely to have self-esteem issues. However, in Shibley Hyde’s meta-analysis, she found that there was almost no difference between adolescent boys’ and girls’ issues with self-worth (Shibley Hyde). This could potentially lead to boys not getting the help they need because society expects them to “take it like a man”.