Gender Socialization

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Gender Socialization
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• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v3K30NNovAsM

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Gender Socialization

• Gender socialization is a more focused form of
  socialization, it is how children of different
  sexes are socialized into their gender roles and
  taught what it means to be male or female.
• Gender socialization begins the moment we are
  born, from the simple question is it a boy or a
  girl?

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Gender Socialization

• We learn our gender roles by agencies of
  socialization, which are the teachers of
  society.
• Each of the agencies could reinforce the gender
  stereotypes.
• Gender differences result from the socialization
  process, especially during our childhood and
  adolescence.
• The classical example of gender socialization is
  the experiment done with babies that were
  introduced as males to half of the study subjects
  and as females to the other half. The results are
  interesting and quite disturbing at the same
  time. The participants behave differently
  according to the sex they had been told.
• These findings show that other people contribute
  a lot to how we see ourselves only on the basis
  of gender.

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Gender Socialization

• The Story of X
• Her only children's story, X A Fabulous Child's
  Story, was a feminist story questioning gender
  roles it was published in Ms. Magazine in 1972
  and in 1978 expanded into a book

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Gender Socialization

• Inspired a couple in Toronto to raise their child
  genderless
• Parents Keep Childs Gender Under Wraps Toronto
  Star