Gender Roles

test 2

mirrors in media

characters that reflect back to you how you should be and what you could do

windows in media

characters who aren’t like you and teach you about them

scripts

what do you do for different activities

girls occupational roles from media

women are unemployed or underemployed or not often seen at work, and when at work they are an object of the male gaze

girls family roles from media

women are doing house work, men are single dads and can’t do house work

heterosexual script

• girls value/happiness is dependent on relationships

• men pursue and women are gatekeepers

• relationships are a point of competition for girls

• road to relationship is by attracting men and being beautiful

genders and math

• starts with parent’s math beliefs that boys are better at math and girls work harder

• boys: parent’s belief > work harder > external explanations

• girls: parent’s belief > you did your best > internal explanations > math anxiety

math anxiety

idea that there is a problem out there that you will never be able to solve no matter how hard you work and opt out of math classes because of it

stereotype threat

kids show stereotypes and are impacted when recognizing their gender when doing an activity

leisure reading

• girls read more outside of school than boys

• during school, they read the same

pink frilly dress stage

when girls won’t wear anything but pink dresses

tom boy stage

• junior high, girls switch from pink frilly stage to junior high

• more masculine, more active

strict gender roles in the pink frilly dressed to tomboys progression

girls think their behavior determines their identity until they get cognitive development of ToM, constancy, and classification

constancy

clothes don’t define gender identity

classification

people can be in 2 categories at once

stereotype awareness in girls

girls start to understand their status and might face discrimination, driving them to switch to tomboy stage