Gender Roles In Childhood

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Gender-role deeply influence on girls in childhood. Most people think that girl should be cute, pretty and beautiful, and should become nurse, teacher or cook. That is, people always view girl as a more tender role. Therefore, girls’ parents usually teach their girl children to dress themselves, to be tender and even give them fewer education when they are in childhood. For example, one of my girl friends wants to become a nice teacher. Everytime I ask her why she doesn’t want to be a doctor through her excellent grades, she always says that she has made a destination to become a music teacher since she was six due to the education her parents have given her. Her parents continuously ask her to be a “woman” instead of doing a loading

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