Can parts of gender stereotype be biological? Can we link this to how children develop the ability to communicate and how they use it at a young age? There are many researchers discussing whether language acquisition between men and women are indeed different and many believe that its caused by gender bias among our society. The general concept is that we are not born with gender, but that gender is something we perform or learn to do. However, there is evidence to show that even at a young age, boys and girls that learn how to communicate, will learn at different speeds and will struggle with different aspects of learning how to communicate.
This may conclude that males would ace motor skills while females excel analytical and intuitive thinking. Nature of Female Brains According to “How Male and Female Brains Differ”, disparities within the brain can be found even when a child is still inside the womb (26 weeks in pregnancy). In the female brain, researchers found, using imaging technology, when tested with sound waves only the left hemisphere was active within the male brain, but in the female brain both hemispheres were active. In result, females may display stronger language and motor skill over males. The production of estrogen also affects
What is more, the fact that boys and girls learn differently is not supported by scientific evidence. If students of both genders aren’t exposed to each other during their education, they won’t know how to deal with each other when they need it most. Single sex supporters also argue that students educated along with the other gender may become more interested in the opinions of the opposite gender than
Agreeing with past research, males were found to be better at both tasks, with female reaction times, in the Line judgment task, found to be larger. In the computerised driving test males again did better than females, their results coinciding with that of the Line judgment test, but, with females, there was seen to be a variation in correlation between both tests. Due to this, the driving test was discussed to be a good form of visuospatial task, or bad. We looked at other factors that might have helped towards this variance in results and drew the conclusion that factors, such as practice, do play a role in the driving test, therefore proving to be a bad way of measuring visuospatial abilities between males and females. Introduction The study of difference in gender has many experiments in which one can find a real majority in either males or females.
Mainly because that stereotypical societal behavior is encouraged through advertisements on a daily basis. In the middle school years, the messages we send to boys and girls begin to hit them with full force as they become aware of and struggle to understand what it means to be a man or a woman in our society. We know that in adolescence girls self-esteem suffers. They often begin to feel less than competent and unsure of themselves. Some girls begin to lose their "voice" or "go underground" with their gifts and abilities as they absorb messages about what it means to be "feminine" in our culture.
Deborah Tannen describes how differences in communication start in the childhood socialization. For girls, oral communication is the basis of their relationships. They tend to talk much amongst each other, often trading secrets and gossips. Boys tend to communicate more physically than orally, by doing things together and creating larger groups. Within these large groups, boys compete with each other in order to not feel of a lower position in the groups.
These elements feed into gender stereotypes in the sense that females usually imagine a fairytale type romance whereas, males tend to imagine a more physical romance. There is one element that I have found very interesting when comparing these two ads. This element being that in the Vera Wang ad it
The second stage is gender stability (3.5-4.5 years). Children recognise that gender is consistent over time, but not that it is consistent across situations. For example, a man may be seen to be female when doing a 'feminine activity'. Thus, these children are still swayed by outward appearance. The third stage is gender consistency.
Some schools that are already taking only boys or girls such as boarding or private schools have proved that their achievements are way high when they are separate. Scholastic Aptitude Test scores are quite different, and their further performances such as in college showed how they have prepared and achieved in formal institutions. Each boy and girl can create synergy effects when they are being with same sex because they are easily to access and share about scholastic issues. Above the subsequent argument, the second reason is about the circumstance of education. Many schools are decided whether they are leading schools or not based on so-called mood or circumstance.
Female students might receive less attention or less encouragement, and therefore will be less likely to perform as well as the males; it may also force a girl student's attention towards the arts and humanities, even if her real interest lies in the sciences. CON: Differences in Male and Female Learning * According to the site Girls Learn Differently, a girl's brain actually processes information differently, and thus a girl's learning style and behavior will deviate from her male counterparts'. For example, a girl is attracted to stimuli such as colors and textures, while boys are more attracted to stimuli such as direction and motion. An all-girls' school or an all-boys' school could tailor its curriculum to the particular learning style of their students, which will make it easier for students to pick up new information. CON: Male/Female Interaction Promotes Distraction * For children of all ages, interacting with the opposite sex can cause anxiety or self-consciousness.