... see through it. Most children are raised with the belief that girls are pretty in pink and boys are rough and tough in blue. As infants grow older, their parents" notions about gender stereotypes continue to influence how parents treat their children. Mothers and fathers tend to look at their baby ... that parents want their boys to be tough, and their daughters are to be neat and very lady like, in their behavior. Parents treating their infants differently are displaying socialization. Socialization is the process by which all people learn what is expected of them through their interacti...

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... Corea et al. 1987; Hammer and McFerran 1988). In many parts of Asia, infanticide "the killing of infants "is relatively common and is more likely to happen to female children (Korbin 1983) ."" It is difficult to know why women are treated differently, it is deeply rooted in ... parliament and other levels of power structures, has sharply decreased. Many women refuse to participate in electoral contests fearing unequal and biased reactions to female candidates. The post-Soviet Central Asian states already have experience of quotas, the abandonment of which brought a reduction in the numbe...

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... is exposed to. Afterwards, it is the family's relatives and friends that put in their two cents on how the "young lady" should act. This is very interesting considering that infants are more alike than different on these early years of life. Unfortunately, no child has ever lived a childhood where family didn't put certain influences on the child. The difference in ... even times when the two are separated at recess. In the classroom, although it usually goes unnoticed, boys are called on more than the girls. Even if the teacher is a female, she will pay more attention to the behaviors ...

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... by their fathers for acting like a "sissy," or not being "tough." A child's earliest exposure to what it means to be male or female comes from parents. From the time they are babies, parents treat sons and daughters differently, dressing infants in gender specific colors and clothing, and giving toys based on gender. One study indicated that parents have different expectations of sons ... . Peer reaction to girls who deviate from the traditionally feminine role is quite different; their behavior tends to be ignored and sometimes even rewarded with elevated social status in their female p...

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