Gender Bias and Stereotyping
It is difficult for a child to grow up without experiencing some form of gender bias or stereotyping. When in school, many of their ideas and beliefs are reinforced by their friends, teachers, and other adults. For example, when teachers ask their students to form two lines, there is usually one line for boys and the other for girls. When children play, they avoid playing with the opposite sex because they prefer the company of "their own kind." The result is a self-imposed segregation between boys and girls. Research has been done on this phenomenon. Many sociologists have been trying to explain gender roles and differences. Some say sex differences are biologically determined and some believe they are socially constructed. Children behave accordingly to their gender roles as early as two or three years old. From preschool on up to middle-school, children live in two separate worlds-- girls and boys. Inside the classroom, children often chose to sit with others of the same sex. This separation is also seen outside of the classroom-- boys played with other boys and girls with other girls. Barrie Thorne who wrote, "Girls and Boys Together...But Mostly Apart: Gender Arrangements in Elementary Schools," states that the separate wo
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