Children’s Socialization to Gender Roles

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Children’s Socialization to Gender Roles I believe it is truly possible to eradicate stereotyping based on gender. It would not be to difficult to accomplish. However adults tend to cling to these stereotypes and raise their children in an environment that encourage behaviours that would be known as ‘gender stereotypes’. Today’s society seems to be stubborn on how a child gets raised. Parents would buy pink accessories for females, and blue for males, princesses for girls, action heroes for boys, etc. It is these small things that have an impact on how children think, and in time change how they are viewed as an adult. If every child gets treated the same there would not be any segregation of any kind, the only drawback is that it would take co-operative action from the majority of adults for this to work. As time would go by, the differences would be set aside. I am not sure whether it is a necessity for us as a society to be aware of how we socialize children in regards to gender. While there may be some benefit to sticking to strict gender role stereotypes (like providing a sense of security, confident decision making), there are also costs involved with sticking to gender role stereotypes. These costs include limiting opportunities for both boys and girls, ignoring talent, and encouraging unfairness in our society. Females can get a lower income when it comes to certain jobs compared to men. Parents who believe in gender roles are more likely to share this attitude in their children. People with who do not necessarily pay attention to gender roles have been found to have higher self-esteem, and higher levels of identity achievement. I would lean more towards it not being a necessity to pay attention to how to socialize a child based on gender. It is more of a personal preference on how a parent decides to raise the child. There are things we

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