Photos of children at playgroup – faces scrubbed out. Ask who picked out clothes. –
influenced by parents? Selecting along very gendered lines?
Ask kids about the clothes they wear. Ask parents about the clothes their kids wear.
Have a selection of clothes and see what the kids wear. Get the kids to sort clothes – anyway
they like. Have a limited selection clearly boys or girls wear- kids reactions. Pick along male
female lines, present males with female choices – what are their reactions?
Toy selection – parents or kids.
----------------------------Toy catalogues – content analysis Analyse content. Anything labelled ‘boys’ or ‘girls’?
(stories, tv shows, books)
Toy choices of boys and girls, toy choices of parents of boys and girls (dress choices)
Toy stores - get people to pick out presents for boys, girls. Go into toy stores and ask sales
assistant to pick out presents for boys girls aged x and y. (Deception – doing a psych
experiment on colour choice)
Movie synopses – read and choose the movie that you would prefer to see. Why?
Max – video games and male female players. Competitiveness? Behaviour?
Phone wallpaper – choices of wallpaper of girls and boys (seems to be photos of
boyfriends/friends for girls – boys: cars, motorbikes, designs (impersonal)
Spatial – estimating Smarties in a jar – gender difference in accuracy of estimation?
Interview of same celebrity in men’s mag vs women’s mag – do they ask different types of
questions that may reflect a gender difference?
“Boys don’t cry” – interview boys and girls re crying behaviour, when allowed, when not,
parental or peer reaction to crying etc
---------------------------Maths – numbers of highest level maths students in classes Ogilvie vs NewTown, feeder
schools – boys vs girls, classes at EC, Hobart etc. Interview with a maths teacher.
Language – interview a counsellor – Special consideration, range of language/literacy
problems boys vs girls.
Humanities subjects – boys to girls: reason for subject choices (my Psych classes 14:7, 16:5
girls to boys)
Male with only female siblings, female with only brothers – interview? Brain sex test?
Interview parent? Interview sibling? More traditional or less traditional gender roles?
Environmental effect?
Transgender person – interview re gender identity, history of development, life span etc
(would not recommend due to ethical considerations – but could be ok; would need to be
known personally by student)
Homosexual person - interview re gender identity, history of development, life span, sexual
orientation (would not recommend due to ethical considerations – but could be ok; would
need to be known personally by student)
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Gender differences in play style preferences OBSERVATION
Gender difference within not-for-profit organisations. SURVEY
Gender differences in visuospatial abilities tests (EXPERIMENT)
Gender differences in career choice (SURVEY)
Gender differences in reading non-verbal communication (EXPERIMENT) Gender
differences in stress
Gender differences in competition (EXPERIMENT)
Gender differences in mathematical ability (EXPERIMENT)
Gender differences in parenting styles (INTERVIEWS)
Gender differences in memory (EXPERIMENT)
Gender differences in Object Memory Location task results (EXPERIMENT)
Parental Influence on child toy selection (OBSERVATION)
Career Aspirations and Stereotypes in children (SURVEY)
Gender differences in learning style VARK questionnaire for subjects
Gender differences and stress levels
Gender differences in SAD
Gender differences in electrophysiological responses to facial stimuli Biological
Psychiatry, Volume 44, Issue 4, Pages 281-289 S.Orozco
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T4S-3V75F7BN&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_ver
sion=1&_u rlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=b06bcfd1a268ee86f72495271228f2c3
http://www.springerlink.com/content/5kph6ptadgrycr84/ - SAD gender differences
Gender differences in seasonal affective disorder (SAD) Journal Archives of Women's
Mental Health
Publisher Springer Wien
ISSN 1434-1816 (Print) 1435-1102 (Online)
Issue Volume 2, Number 2 / August, 1999
DOI 10.1007/s007370050040
Pages 83-89
Subject Collection Medicine
SpringerLink Date Thursday, August 19, 1999
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117876850/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
– SAD & gender
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