Practicing Gender Role Identity

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In today’s society, we as an individual are develop upon the way “society” view things such as gender roles in dressing up certain types of style or fashion to fit in the “Norms” category in another word “tradition gender clothes.” According to “What is “Gender Specific” Clothing” source pakeys.org stated, “Because children are developing gender role identity during Preschool years, they require concrete examples of dress-up that are associated with men and women” (pakeys.org). In other words this means that at a young age he or she do not know much about the gender role identity, so therefore, he or she parents are the ones that get to choose which dress-up that is correct for his or her identity. For example, female are suppose to wear “dresses

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