Gender Roles Presentation

When are gender roles adopted?

How are gender roles developed?

Gender Roles Presentation

It is not until the child is about 5 or 6 years old and has fully developed the concept of gender or when the child has learned about his or her own gender identity and how gender acts or serves the same way in older children and adults.

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Stages in which gender role is adopted:

Gender identity:

Children between the ages of 2-3

Gender stability:

Children starting at age 4

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Gender constancy:

What influences shape perceptions of gender roles?

Starting between 4-5 years of age

According to Kohlberg's Cognitive Developmental Theory:

The cognitive factors that contribute to a child's understanding of gender and gender stereotypes could add to their acquisition of gender roles. "Two cognitive approaches to gender typing have looked at when children acquire different types of gender information and how such information modifies their gender-role activities and behaviors" (Hetherington & Parke, 2003).

The three-stage cognitive developmental theory of gender typing insinuates that a child begins knowing the difference between boys and girls; however, the child must first develop gender identity, gender stability and gender constancy. (Hetherington & Parke, 2003).

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Children at age 4 have a good concept that a person's gender remains the same all through his or her lifetime, known as gender stability.

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Infants from 9-12 months begin recognizing gender identity by categorizing boys from girls, often using "hair length" as the main objective to help distinguish between the two genders.

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Based on the cognitive developmental theory, gender constancy is theoretically believed to be obtained in children at age six, whereas, gender-typed behavior is not yet present (cognitively). On the other hand, specific toys and choices of activities that pertain to a gender commonly associated in playing with toys, such as a G.I.Joe (for boys), American Girl Dolls (for girls), or pretend to be mommy and daddy have been observed and noted in children during the stages of early childhood. This type of behavior later, leads into a liking and/or inclination for same-sex playmates. "These findings suggest that the link between the acquisition of gender concepts and behavior varies depending on gender understanding" and the type of demeanor or conduct in which the child displays or demonstrates consistently. (Hetherington & Parke, 2003).

Because children learn through experience, by internal working model and through other means by which the parent(s), adult, or caregiver models and teaches the child what he/she needs to know---the child grows up only knowing what they are taught. From birth and well into adulthood, parents are the fundamental factors that impacts how a growing child thinks about his/her world. Parents mold their child(ren) to think and behave a certain way. Therefore, what children are taught at home (by the parents) will result in how they view everything in life. Then as the child gets older and learns to become more aware of his or her environment and the world---other factors, such as mass media, peers, friends, relatives, society, and pop culture later contribute in reshaping his or her ideas and opinions about gender roles.

Ced Paltep

MTE 506

December 15, 2013

Michelle Nathan

Somethings to Think About

Parents are the main key factor that can truly impact and manipulate a child to act and think a certain way about anything. - Ced Paltep, 2013

Creating whole department of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education." - Thomas Sowell, 2001-2013

Young children appear to begin to apply gender role stereotypes at about the same time that they develop gender identity. -

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How might gender identify change from early childhood through adolescence?

• Hair length
• Choices in attire
• Sports
• Facial and body hair
• Recreational activities
• Emotional shift of high interest in same gender

Bee, H., & Boyd, D. (2010). Concepts of self, gender, and sex roles. (12 ed.). New York, NY: Pearson Education. Retrieved from https://newclassroom3.phoenix.edu/Classroom/#/contextid/OSIRIS:45905486/context/co/view/activityDetails/activity/61489dea-f55a-4222-bb58-ee736a4d5001/expanded/True/focus-cmt/none/tab/Reading

McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Retrieved from http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072820144/student_view0/chapter15/

What observable behaviors might indicate changes in gender identity?

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Often times, gender stereotypes play a huge part in how a gender sees a change in himself or herself from early childhood through adulthood.

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"Children develop gender-typed patterns of behavior and preferences as early as age 15 to 36 months."

However, gender-typed interests seem to remain stable from childhood to maturity. - Hetherington & Parke, 2003

When the child reaches maturation, he or she may decide to alter his or her gender identity (e.g., plastic surgery, sex change)

• Showing preference in playmate
• Changes in demeanor and/or changes in appearance that reflect the opposite sex
• Gender stereotyping