The article I chose, “Self-Perceived Gender Typicality, Gender-Typed Attributes, and Gender Stereotype Endorsement in Elementary-School-Aged Children”, is a study based on gender typicality (how people of a certain gender perceives themselves to be similar or different from those of the same gender) in elementary age students. More specifically, how gender typicality relates to gender attributes as well as gender stereotypes and if these relations varied by age and gender. In this specific article, the researcher believed that 1. “Self-perceived gender typicality would be positively correlated with same-gender-typed interests and negatively correlated with other-gender-typed interests and other gender friends” and these gender attributes would
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To this day, young children still have the perception everything is gender specific. I mean, I remember calling myself a “typical” girl when I did whatever a “typical” girl does. The connotation of gender specificity is still here to this day. I am however, intrigued with the idea that each gender were both equally strong in the debate of gender typicality and gender attributes. The article mentions the researcher’s belief that the males would have a stronger relationship due to their desire to stay away from feminine activities as well as the pressure that they have to behave in stereotypical consist ways. I was with them in that aspect; I do believe, at a young age, males tend to have the stereotypical pressure put harder on them in comparison to females. I mean, they’re taught that they have to become the typical breadwinners of the house, and to do so they have to have the characteristics and skills that would help them mate, even though at their age girls meant cooties. Another thing is from personal experience, in watching my brother grow up, he had a lot more responsibilities in comparison to me, he would help my father out with the yard, he’d mow, I mean he was becoming the masculine male that he was supposed to become, according to society. I just find this idea that children succumb to the beliefs that everything they have to do has to be gender-typical, and that they have theses stereotypes so early in their life. I mean, it’s 2015, we’re starting to implement unisex restrooms as well as big corporations such as Target leading by example and removing their gender specific labels. I think in the upcoming years, we need to settle this and teach our children that nothing is truly gender specific. I mean if my child was a girl and wanted to wear blue or play with trucks, etc. I would let them. I can’t understand how parents want to rule their kids in that aspect of life. I could never do it.
To this day, young children still have the perception everything is gender specific. I mean, I remember calling myself a “typical” girl when I did whatever a “typical” girl does. The connotation of gender specificity is still here to this day. I am however, intrigued with the idea that each gender were both equally strong in the debate of gender typicality and gender attributes. The article mentions the researcher’s belief that the males would have a stronger relationship due to their desire to stay away from feminine activities as well as the pressure that they have to behave in stereotypical consist ways. I was with them in that aspect; I do believe, at a young age, males tend to have the stereotypical pressure put harder on them in comparison to females. I mean, they’re taught that they have to become the typical breadwinners of the house, and to do so they have to have the characteristics and skills that would help them mate, even though at their age girls meant cooties. Another thing is from personal experience, in watching my brother grow up, he had a lot more responsibilities in comparison to me, he would help my father out with the yard, he’d mow, I mean he was becoming the masculine male that he was supposed to become, according to society. I just find this idea that children succumb to the beliefs that everything they have to do has to be gender-typical, and that they have theses stereotypes so early in their life. I mean, it’s 2015, we’re starting to implement unisex restrooms as well as big corporations such as Target leading by example and removing their gender specific labels. I think in the upcoming years, we need to settle this and teach our children that nothing is truly gender specific. I mean if my child was a girl and wanted to wear blue or play with trucks, etc. I would let them. I can’t understand how parents want to rule their kids in that aspect of life. I could never do it.