Gender roles: What are we teaching our daughters?
Have you ever watched a little girl play house? Even as young as pre school age, girls are well aware that she is the one staying home taking care of the baby while the husband goes to work. She cooks and cleans and has dinner ready when the husband returns from work. Gender stereotyping begins the second a babys gender is found out. As soon as we find out that it’s a girl, we immediately begin decorating the nursery filled with pink décor surrounded by butterflies, flowers and bumble bees. We assume that our little girl will love dresses be extra girly and have her room filled with tea sets and dolls. Could it be that we setting our daughters up and teaching them how to be the stereotypical women? Are we teaching our girls to wear dresses, serve food and take care of babies which is one of the biggest most common stereotype put on women? …show more content…
She adds 5 ways to raise girls to be leaders. In the article Joyce talks about how society if it’s unwittingly are biases against girls and women as leaders. New research from Harvard Graduate School of Education shows that 23 percent of girls and 40 percent of boys preferred male political leaders instead of female, while only 8 percent of girls and 4 percent of boys preferred male business leaders to female. On the school age level even mothers and girls were more likely to favor giving power to student councils led by boys rather than girls. So what are we teaching our kids? Do we teach our children that women can’t be great leaders because the majority of society believes that women are better caretakers than leaders? The data suggest that awareness of gender discrimination may be related to unconscious bias against female leaders (Joyce,
Have you ever watched a little girl play house? Even as young as pre school age, girls are well aware that she is the one staying home taking care of the baby while the husband goes to work. She cooks and cleans and has dinner ready when the husband returns from work. Gender stereotyping begins the second a babys gender is found out. As soon as we find out that it’s a girl, we immediately begin decorating the nursery filled with pink décor surrounded by butterflies, flowers and bumble bees. We assume that our little girl will love dresses be extra girly and have her room filled with tea sets and dolls. Could it be that we setting our daughters up and teaching them how to be the stereotypical women? Are we teaching our girls to wear dresses, serve food and take care of babies which is one of the biggest most common stereotype put on women? …show more content…
She adds 5 ways to raise girls to be leaders. In the article Joyce talks about how society if it’s unwittingly are biases against girls and women as leaders. New research from Harvard Graduate School of Education shows that 23 percent of girls and 40 percent of boys preferred male political leaders instead of female, while only 8 percent of girls and 4 percent of boys preferred male business leaders to female. On the school age level even mothers and girls were more likely to favor giving power to student councils led by boys rather than girls. So what are we teaching our kids? Do we teach our children that women can’t be great leaders because the majority of society believes that women are better caretakers than leaders? The data suggest that awareness of gender discrimination may be related to unconscious bias against female leaders (Joyce,