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    Gender socialization is the process by which individuals learn behaviors and attitudes associated with their gender. Children are taught from an early age through various agents like family, school, peers, and media. Boys and girls are exposed to gender-specific activities, toys, and roles. This reinforcement of gender stereotypes can impact people's lives and limit their potential. Common stereotypes include those based on gender, race, culture, and groups. Gender inequality also exists in areas like mobility, marriage rights, and access to education.

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    Gender socialization is the process by which individuals learn behaviors and attitudes associated with their gender. Children are taught from an early age through various agents like family, school, peers, and media. Boys and girls are exposed to gender-specific activities, toys, and roles. This reinforcement of gender stereotypes can impact people's lives and limit their potential. Common stereotypes include those based on gender, race, culture, and groups. Gender inequality also exists in areas like mobility, marriage rights, and access to education.

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    Gender socialization is the process by which individuals learn behaviors and attitudes associated with their gender. Children are taught from an early age through various agents like family, school, peers, and media. Boys and girls are exposed to gender-specific activities, toys, and roles. This reinforcement of gender stereotypes can impact people's lives and limit their potential. Common stereotypes include those based on gender, race, culture, and groups. Gender inequality also exists in areas like mobility, marriage rights, and access to education.

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    Gender socialization is the process by which individuals learn behaviors and attitudes associated with their gender. Children are taught from an early age through various agents like family, school, peers, and media. Boys and girls are exposed to gender-specific activities, toys, and roles. This reinforcement of gender stereotypes can impact people's lives and limit their potential. Common stereotypes include those based on gender, race, culture, and groups. Gender inequality also exists in areas like mobility, marriage rights, and access to education.

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    GENDER SOCIALIZATION future prescribed gender roles for

    children.
    Is the process by which
    individuals are taught how to socially EXAMPLE CANALIZATION
    behave in accordance with their BOYS
    assigned gender, which is assigned at • Playing Legos and Trucks.
    birth based on their biological sex. • Loves Blue
    • Wear three-piece suits, overalls, and
    The process of learning the social super hero pajamas.
    expectations and attitudes associated
    with one’s sex. Boys learn to be boys GIRLS
    and Girls learn to be girls. • Playing with dolls and kitchen sets.
    • Loves Pink
    AGENTS OF GENDER • Wear dresses and heart or
    SOCIALIZATION flower-covered outfits

    ● FAMILY VERBAL APPELLATION


    ● SCHOOL Children are given nicknames or
    ● PEERS pet names that are appropriate for their
    ● MEDIA sex.
    ● RELIGION
    ● LIFE ACTIVITY EXPOSURE
    Exposing Children to Gender
    1. PARENTS/FAMILY Appropriate Tasks or Activities. Children
    observe their parents or other elders
    Parents are typically a child’s first and try to be like them.
    source of information about gender.
    Upon the birth of the child, parents EXAMPLE
    orient the children with different BOYS
    expectations relative to their sex. • Engage in more roughhousing with his
    ● The family has the power to father
    influence individual self-concept, • Mechanical activities
    emotions, attitude, and behavior. • Boys are given more freedom
    outdoors.
    CANALIZATION
    Canalization is gender GIRLS
    socialization through interaction with • Household Chores
    toys, colors, and objects. The choice of • Mother takes her daughter in cooking
    toys is gendered and often predicts and other house chores even shopping
    • Girls are expected to help their mother.
    people’s lives and can reinforce gender
    2. TEACHERS/SCHOOL stereotypes
    Teachers play a vital role in shaping
    children’s understanding about gender PRINT MEDIA
    relations, roles, class, history, etc. • The print media plays a
    ● Teachers and school significant role in gender socialization.
    administrators model gender roles and Most magazines concentrate on finance,
    sometimes demonstrate gender business, sports, technology, hobbies,
    stereotypes by treating their male and and sex, women’s as well as man
    female students in different ways. magazines.
    • Media portray images of women
    CLASSROOMS which are often negative.
    Most of the primary schools in the
    Philippines separate boys and girls ADVERTISEMENT
    when it comes to seating arrangements. • Women are almost exclusively
    present in ads promoting cooking,
    TEXTBOOKS cleaning, or childcare-related products.
    There are still remaining teaching • Men are strongly affected by the
    materials that are sexist and gender media representations of the ideal body
    insensitive. shape and the definition of masculinity.

    3. PEERS FILMS
    Peer interactions also contribute to • Boys are often active and
    gender socialization. Children tend to heroes of adventure
    play with same-gender peers. Through • Girls are often shown to be less
    these interactions, they learn what their active and need boys to help them/save
    peers expect of them as boys or girls. them.
    • Women tend to have less
    FRIENDS/GROUPS significant roles and are often portrayed
    • Those who do not fit into their gender as wives or mothers.
    role may get called names and bullied.
    • This is more true for boys than girls. 5. CHURCH/RELIGION
    • Girls are allowed to be ‘tomboys’ but Church/Religion is also a powerful social
    boys who are feminine face scorn. institution that shape gender identity in
    society. There are sacred spaces where
    4. MEDIA only men are allowed to enter and not
    Media including movies, Tv, and books for women.
    teaches children about what it means to
    be a boy or girl. Media conveys 6. GENDER SOCIALIZATION
    information about the roles of gender in THROUGHOUT LIFE
    Gender socialization is a lifelong race. Racial profiling is a form of
    process. The beliefs about gender that stereotyping that has particular
    we acquire in childhood can affect us implications for racialized persons.
    throughout our lives. The impact of this
    socialization can be big (shaping what 2. GENDER PROFILING
    we believe we are capable of MEN
    accomplishing and thus potentially • Men are strong and do all the work
    determining our life's course), small • Men are the “Backbone”
    (influencing the color we choose for our • Guys are messy and unclean
    bedroom walls), or somewhere in the • Men who spend too much time on the
    middle. computer or read are geeks.

    WHAT ARE STEREOTYPES? WOMEN


    • Women aren’t smart as man
    Gender Stereotypes • Women can’t do as good of a job as a
    Generalizations about the roles man
    believed as exclusive to each gender. • Girls are not good at sports
    These are generally neither positive nor
    negative; they are simply inaccurate 3. CULTURES
    generalizations of the male and female Stereotypes also exist about cultures
    attributes. and countries as a whole.
    ● All Arabs and Muslims are terrorists.
    Gender Stereotypes ● All people who live in the city are more
    Gender Stereotyping is basically liberated.
    putting down someone because of their ● Italian or French people are the best
    “sex” or not believing they are able to do lovers
    something because they are either male ● All informal settlers are poor.
    or female. ● All Americans are generally
    considered to be friendly, generous, and
    COMMON STEREOTYPES tolerant, but also arrogant, impatient,
    - RACIAL PROFILING and domineering.
    - GENDER PROFILING
    - CULTURES 4. GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS
    - GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS A different type of Stereotype also
    - SEXUAL STEREOTYPES involves grouping of individuals like
    Skaters, dancers, Gangsters, and the
    likes. Most of this stereotyping is taking
    1. RACIAL PROFILING place in schools.
    One of the more common stereotype
    examples are stereotypes surrounding
    Goths wear black clothes, black IDENTIFIED GENDER INEQUALITY
    makeup, are depressed and hated by ● LACK OF MOBILITY
    society. ● FREEDOM OF MARRIAGE
    Punks wear spikes, chains, are a ● DISCRIMINATORY DIVORCE
    menace to society and are always RIGHTS
    getting in trouble. ● CITIZENSHIP
    All politicians are philanders and think ● CUSTODY RIGHTS
    only of personal gain and benefit. ● VIOLENCE
    Girls are only concerned about physical ● PROFESSIONAL OBSTACLES
    appearance. ● RESTRICTED LAND OWNERSHIP
    All librarians are women who are old, ● ACCESS TO EDUCATION
    wear glasses, tie high bun, and have a
    perpetual frown on their face.
    All teenagers are rebels.
    All children don’t enjoy healthy food.
    Only Anorexic women can become
    models. The elderly have health issues
    and behave like children.

    5. SEXUAL STEREOTYPES
    Sexual Stereotypes, suggest that any
    feminine man is gay and any masculine
    woman is a lesbian.

    IMPLICATIONS OF STEREOTYPE
    ● VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
    ● CULTURE GAPS

    3. GENDER INEQUALITY
    Gender Inequality
    Acknowledges that men and
    women are not equal and that gender
    affects an individual’s lived experience.
    The disparities between women and
    men in a society in terms of their access
    and opportunities in the social,
    economic, and political spheres and
    their share in decision-making power at
    all social levels.

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