YES! Being aware of this will make you a GREAT parent. We will never be raising our kids without fault (letting your kids 'go' into society will also mean you have to correct some societal mistakes unfortunately :-/) but we can honor our future artists, presidents, and everything in between better by raising them without all the boxes you can put a child in.

Learning about emotional health is step 1 in that. Where physical wounds are either immediately treated 'right' or just heal without even taking an effort, this is not the case for emotional health. We have to teach our kids to take a look at their emotions and express them in a way that fits the child instead of what fits in society. There are some lovely exercises to do with a child, like: how do you walk when you are mad? (Some start walking faster, some start kicking things, other will not walk but go sit in a corner when they're mad), and explain that that's interesting, and also show how you walk when you are mad, and just talk about different ways of expressing anything.

You will like (if you haven't seen it yet) this TED talk too as a future parent by the way: https://www.ted.com/talks/caroline_paul_to_raise_brave_girls_encourage_adventure - Girls are kept from 'dangerous' play situations where boys get compliments for it. That's one example of how we encourage different outward/inward behavior between the sexes, but there are many more.

Thanks for writing about this topic on Steemit :-)

PS: There are biological differences between the two genders. From a chromosomal standpoint, boys have a higher change of behavioral (outward acting) disorders, where girls have a higher change if hormonal (inward feeling) disorders. But this only in part explains the differences we see in children. There's always nature/nurture, and there are many examples of how people change their behavior towards a child if they believe a child is from 'the opposite sex' (by changing a girl from a pink in a blue outfit for example).

If I find these experiments I'll drop them here too :-)