Can a Girl Be a Hero?
Gender constitutes one of the most important learning experiences for the young child. By the time, a child reaches pre-school, he or she is able to make gender distinctions and sex-role preferences. They also learn the appropriate behaviour for both boys and girls and men and women. In addition to learning gender identification and sex-role expectations, boys and girls are exposed to accept society’s definition of the relative worth of each of the sexes and to assume the personality characteristics that are “typical” of members of each sex. In a patriarchal society like ours, children learn very quickly that boys are more highly valued than girls, and with regard to personality differences, they learn that boys are more active and achieving while girls are passive and emotional. In the media, girls are again generally portrayed in a different way to boys. There are lots of examples of this from the images found on birthday cards to those in children’s books. In picture books such as comics, boys are mostly shown as rough and aggressive while girls are presented as ‘scaredy cats’ and ‘goody-goodies’. There are also far more male characters than females in comics, from ‘Superman’, ‘Batman’ to all the othe
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Approximate Word count = 2015
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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