From, and even before birth, babies are surrounded by objects, decoration and clothing relating to their gender. Baby girls are usually surrounded by pink and treated as delicate and pretty where as boys are given blue toys and told they will grow up big and strong. Even where parents and carers strive to treat their children in an equal manner and provide gender neutral toys, in built stereotypes still dictate future behaviour, morals and expectations. Is it any wonder that children reach school and feel the need to fight and roll around in the dirt where the marketing directed at them shows their hero's - cartoons and action figures doing just that. You never see an advert for Barbie or Tiny Tears with a boy cradeling them in his arms. How does this affect children's views of themselves and how do others treat them differently respectivley?
The development of spontaneous gender stereotyping in
childhood: relations to stereotype knowledge and stereotype
flexibility
The development of gender roles in young children
gender in early childhood
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