Kids Believe Gender Stereotypes by Age 10, Global Study Finds

In almost every society from Baltimore to Beijing, boys have been told to go out to risk going out to encourage them to stay home for domestic duties. In most cultures girls are warned to take the initiative in any relationship, and by the age of 10, there is already a clear impression that their important assets are their appearance.

This is the result of 6 years of new research on men's and women's expectations around the world collecting data from children aged 10 to 14 in 15 countries with various wealth and developmental levels in the world. The research team interviewed 450 young people and their parents. They found a surprisingly somewhat irritating agreement, attitude towards boys and girls.

Robert Blum, a professor and director of Johns Hopkins University, said: "From the most conservative society to the most liberal society, it turned out that children of very young age would soon be this myth It is internalized as a myth that girls are easily injured and men are strongly self-supporting. "

While researchers encourage young girls to protect themselves or to encourage boys to be brave without balancing information, they are particularly concerned with restrictive 'gender bondage' which may have a negative impact on girls I will say. Beginning as "protection" can be an expectation that girls should not accept their choices or take risks, but should accept others' demands

During the adolescence it has been believed for a long time that the number of boys in the world has increased and the number of girls has decreased, but this new survey was conducted in Belgium, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, I will investigate children in India. . Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Scotland, South Africa and the United States highlight the degree of globalization and its youthfulness of this phenomenon

In fact, researchers believe that some programs aimed at rectifying the gender imbalance of 15-year-old children may actually be more useful for young groups. Children before adolescence should rethink the reasons why men and women should take specific actions and think that they should protect their health.

Kristin Mmari, a public relations associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, says: "Adolescent health risks are determined by behavior caused by sexual roles established in children between the ages of 10 and 11. They said it is healthy, for example, boys are fighting, take drugs, smoke etc. It may try to establish social status as a risk taker taking unhealthy behavior of.

Whatever they are, the attitude of the girl's body and other people to them is psychologically annoying. "In New Delhi, girls talk about their bodies is a big risk that you need to hide," in Baltimore, girls say their main asset is their body. It is too attractive. "

Children began to notice the gender stereotypes between the ages of 5 and 10. But over and over, they have imposed gender norms even before they notice. Our intervention is to make children more open to gender. If you want to wear a skirt, it can be male or female, you can do without shame, guilt and fear. Our message is that if you are talking about the word of love, the rest will look after yourself. This is everything we tell them - Do not humiliate others as they are, please do not let other people humilify you because you want to be

In a longitudinal study, mirrors etc. (2006) I studied the interaction between development of sexual stereotypes and sexual preferences of children aged 5 to 10. They also studied child's gender preferences for toys, game activities, housework and vocational activities. Knowledge as a fixed idea of ​​their gender. They found a particularly interesting interaction, and the boy followed the predictive pattern. To boys, deepening your understanding of stereotypes is parallel to increasing preferences by gender. Their preferences tend to increase to the extent that they achieve the stiffness of the largest stereotype, and the preferences tend to remain stable. Therefore, in boys, you may increase your stereotypes while increasing your sex type preferences. But the model of the girl is not clear. Researchers also investigated individual differences

In all ages, children are most susceptible to sweets. It is now thought that the growth agencies of children encouraged them to crave for sugar. In one study, researchers at Monell Chemical Sensory Center had 108 children from 5 to 10 years of age. Their mother evaluated the salt and sugar content of soups, syrups, jelly and crackers. They discovered that children who prefer sweets more than delicious foods are often older and have no correlation between heredity and preference. Children want to eat sugar