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Thank You!

Thank you everyone for taking the time to read this blog. I tried my best in making it as relatable as possible. :) I hope it gave you more ideas as to what "Gender Socialization" is.

*Review*

-As early as pre-kindergarten, many children come to school with concrete ideas regarding gender socialization. Many girls, for example, will not engage in rough play because their Mothers told them not to. When a little boy gets hurt during a playground, he will do his best to keep from crying, for fear of being teased as "a little girl." This trend often continues as the child grows up. Boys are more participative in class because they tend to speak out/up more. Many young girls, on the other hand, are more reserved. Though this is an unconscious process, many aspects of early gender role socialization are difficult to overcome and have long-term effects.
-Many of the early role socialization has very restrictive results. Boys learn to control their emotions, and it may become difficult for an educator to interest them in subjects that are considered "affective." This includes subjects like art, music or creative writing. Girls on the other hand, tend to shy away from "hard" sciences like math. I believe that parents need to develop a greater awareness of the effects of early gender role socializing. It is with parents that children learn their earliest and often, most influential, gender role. "What the Monkey sees, the Monkey will do." It is also at this stage when they are forming ideas about their own personality and identity. Parents need to learn that their children pick up their cues regarding socialization. Educators should also be aware of ingrained gender roles, in order to recognize and perhaps counter their ill effects.

Video*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=381belOZreA

Please link the Youtube link to watch a short clip of "Childhood Gender Roles on Adults" 

My Reflection: 
After watching this short video, I was impressed. These actors really crunched up what Gender Socialization was when I was growing up. Growing up, I was also told that I have to act a certain way because I am a "girl". I couldn't act tough because my Mother told me that it wasn't very "ladylike". I was also confused as to why she says this. I remember in Elementary School, my parents would always buy me pink clothes or anything that is bright and girly, and they'd buy my brother the compete opposite, which was blue. At first, I agreed to this because I had wasn't aware that it was even an issue. But, why was the issue so affecting to others? Why does pink have to be for girls and blue has to be for boys? I never know the answer to this. When I was growing up to my adulthood years, my parents were move giving to the things they buy me as presents. When I gotten older, my Dad started buying me video games because he knows that I am interested in them now. Also, my Mom started buying me clothes that are NOT pink anymore because she now knows that I am a female and she didn't let gender socializing differ from what she is getting me.

Cont. Gender Socialization in Sports

• Thanks to social progress, it is becoming more widely accepted for men and women to crossover into sports typically dominated by the other sex. 
• It is becoming less unusual to hear about a female football players and recently there has  been a surge in females participating in Crossfit, (like myself), an intense form of physical training, and boxing. 
• Likewise, male participation in typically female dominated sports is facing less criticism than in the past. 
• Also, ever wonder why male athlete get paid more in sports and more views rather than females? I think the answer to this is that in the United States, football, basketball, and baseball are the most viewed sports because they are played by the "male dominators"! Crazy right? 

Gender Socialization in Sports

• Nearly 83% of American children participate in some type of extracurricular activities; of those, approximately 35 million children in the United States play sports. 
• Among the multitude of sports in this country, there is a definite segregation between sports dominated by males and females. 
• Sports that are typically dominated by males include hockey, football, boxing, and weightlifting.
• They allow males to demonstrate the physical prowess and psychological attributes that make them productive members of society. 
• In contrast to male dominated sports, there are also female dominated sports include dance, volleyball, figure skating and equestrian. 
• Female dominated sports tend to perpetuate the female ideals of grace, intelligence, and beauty while downplaying physical strength and aggression. 
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Theories

• Gender is a category system made up of many levels, many interwoven strands. 
• Physiology defines the most fundamental level, designating people as male or female on the basis of their observable sexual anatomy, but every known society surrounds the basic facts of sexual form and function with a system of social rules and customs concerning what males and females are supposed to be and do. 
• As children master and internalize this system, they learn to discriminate and label themselves and others on the basis of sex, to recognize attributes, and behaviors that are typical of or considered appropriate for each sex, and to learn how to do what is seen as appropriate and to avoid what is not. 
• What's more, the gender category system is infused with affect to an extent few other knowledge bases can match, making it what is perhaps the most salient parameter of social categorization for the young child. 
• Our focus here is upon gender development from infants' earliest recognition of sex-related differences through the acquisition of gender knowledge and sec behavior during early and middle childhood. 
• The environmental influences with which we are most concerned are family, son, and daughter define what is expected of the individual who occupies the role in relation to the others who enact their own roles; gender development consists of learn-by-doing mastery of the prescribed roles. 

Examples of Early Gender Socialization

*Question: Ever wonder why at "gender revel" parties, there is usually a box that either contacts a blue or pink ballon that identifies what the gender of the unborn child will be?*
-- The answer to this is that, people automatically think that blue is ONLY for BOYS. And the color pink is ONLY for girls.

• Children start facing norms that define "masculine" and "feminine" from an early age. Boys are told not to cry, not to fear, not to be forgiving and instead to be assertive, and strong. 
• Girls on the other hand are asked not to be demanding, to be forgiving and accommodating and "ladylike". 
• These gender roles and expectations have large scale ramifications. 
• In many parts of the world, girls face discrimination in the care they receive in terms of their access to nutritious foods and health care, leading them to believe that they deserve to be treated differently than boys. 
• The degree of gender differences observed varies in all cultures in respect to infant, toddler and young child health, nutrition, care developmental activities, education, hygiene and protection. 

Early Gender Socialization

• It is generally accepted that early gender socialization is one of the most pertinent issues in early childhood, affecting both boys and girls. 
• For example: Boys can only play with toys like trucks, solider dolls and swords. Whereas, girls can only play with barbie dolls, little kitchen sets and baby dolls. 
• Right from the beginning, boys and girls are treated differently by the members of their own environment; (Mother and Father), and learn the differences between boys and girls, women and men. 
• Gender socialization begins as early as when a woman becomes pregnant and people start making judgments about the value of males over females. 
• These stereotypes are perpetuated by family members, teachers and others by having different expectations for males and females. 

Compare and Contrast

This is a compare and contrast list of the women I interviewed for our previous assignment. My findings were amazing because not all women agree they are equally treated at their personal work places.

Interviews

For this section, I wanted to include the interview I did for our class. The interview consists of questions I had to make up for my interviewee's about Gender Socialization. Surprisingly, all of them similarities about the topic. 

*Notice how all females had different responses as to what gender socialization is*

Developmental Psychology

• Gender Socialization is strongly connected to developmental psychology. 
• Meaning, humans need social experiences to learn their culture and to survive. 
• Essentially represents the whole process of learning throughout the life course and is a central influence on the behavior, beliefs and actions of adults as well asa of children. 
• It may lead to desirable outcomes -- sometimes labeled "moral" as regards the society where it occurs. 
• Lastly, individuals views are influenced by the society's consensus and usually tend toward what that society finds "acceptable or "normal". 
• **Scientific research provides evidence that people are shaped by both social influences and genes, that a person's environment interacts with his or her outcomes.  

What Is Gender Socialization?

• Gender Socialization is the process by which males and females are informed about the norms and behaviors associated with their sex. 
• Differences between "sex and gender" 
• Sex: Is what you were born with (biological) 
• Gender: Is learned through the social rules that are assigned to your biological sex. (Masculinity and Feminism) 
• An important part of socialization is the learning culturally defined gender roles. Gender socialization refers to the learning of behavior and attitudes considered appropriate for a given sex. 
• For example: Boys learn to be boys and girls learn to be girls. (Boys only play with toy trucks and girls only play with barbie dolls.