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Who cleans the house?
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Who provides for the family?
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Who makes the first move in a
relationship?
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Who takes longer to get ready?
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Gender Roles: A set of expected
behaviors for males and for females.
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Ex: Females are often expected to be
the ones to make sandwiches and clean
while males are the ones expected to
support the family by working.
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Gender Typing: The acquisition of a
traditional masculine or feminine role.
Ex: Kids associate the color pink with girls and the
color blue with boys because when they are
younger most “girl toys” are pink and most “boy
toys” are blue.
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Gender Schema Theory: The theory that
children learn from their cultures a
concept of what it means to be male
and female and that they adjust their
behavior accordingly.
Ex: If a girl sees that her brother is encouraged to
wrestle with her father, she creates an idea
governing how boys and girls should play.
Before age 1, children begin to
discriminate between male and female
voices and faces.
 After age 2, language forces children to
organize their worlds according to
gender.
 At age 3, children start to seek out
members of their own gender to play.
 These stereotypes peak at age 6.
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es.net/3B-+Group+1
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Gender Roles are the expected
behavior (“rules”)
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Gender Typing is acquiring a role or trait
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Gender Schema Theory is acting on
gender typing and gender roles (aka
changing your behavior to fit those rules)
A.
Age 4
B.
Age 9
C.
Age 6
D.
Age 15
A.
Gender Schema Theory
B.
Being a brat
C.
Ignorance
D.
Gender Typing
A.
Gender Roles
B.
Gender Typing
C.
Normal
D.
Gender Schema Theory
A.
Making sandwiches
B.
Gender Schema Theory
C.
Gender Roles
D.
Going to work
A.
Sometimes
B.
Yes
C.
Only for ducks
D.
No
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