Gender Stereotyping Of Children

In the late 1980's, McDonald's launched a series of new toys with Happy Meal Promotion, and now it offers only Barbies and Hot Wheels as a toy choice. They were hit hard and made Happy Meals more popular than ever. "Is this a boy or a girl?" Was added to the list of questions asked at the time of ordering. This is a new form of marketing, especially one of all sex toys and stereotypes (Faust N. Pag.). Advertising and marketing are not the only ones affecting gender stereotypes.

• Encourage and support the strengths and benefits of all activities, nurture a positive personal identity regardless of stereotype of gender, teach children how to identify fixed ideas and potentially harmful information; all According to the emotional survey of most, most parents want to take the same treatment for girls and boys in early childhood, more than three-quarters of them want to challenge restrictive sexual philosophy centering on children thinking about. A way you might not understand skillfully strengthens children's gender stereotypes

What kind of gender stereotype do children have? Approximately 26 months later, children are best aware of adult-related gender - abstract features of adult body, appearance, personality and softness. At 31 or 32 months, the children showed an understanding of the stereotypes of the children's toys (Ruble & Martin, 1998). Later, about five years later, the children began showing gender stereotype knowledge about characteristics and attributes such as "related" and "adventure" (Powlishta, Sen, Serbin, Poulin-Dubois, & Eichstedt, 2001) .