RE: Do Parents Stereotype Their Children's Gender?

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accelerator (67)in #steemstem • 6 years ago

I have found that children in schools tend to segregate themselves into genders very early on. I find it weird, but it must come from somewhere ;-)

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alexander.alexis (63) 6 years ago (edited)

Yup! Here's a quote from the literature:

Children choose same-sex playmates spontaneously in situations in which they are not under pressure from adults to do so. In modem co-educational schools, segregation is more marked in situations that have not been structured by adults than in those that have (e.g., Eisenhart & Holland, 1983).^[9]

Thanks for reading and sharing! )

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accelerator (67) 6 years ago

Good to see this article is now doing very well! Glad I caught it early :-)

The flip side of this auto-segregation - it's somewhat like a chemical precipitation - is that those kids who wish to "cross over" are thought of as outsiders. They are not gay or trans; they seem to just enjoy a different energy and are happy to be in both groups. Somehow, this is verboten.

This does not bode well for adults.

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