Argumentative Essay On Gender Roles In Children

Children are making decisions they may not have made had gender roles not been created and enforced by their parents. An example of that is revealed by Caldera, Huston, and O’brian: “Studies have shown that children will most likely choose to play with “gender appropriate” toys, even when cross gender toys are available, because parents give children positive feedback (in the form of praise, involvement, and physical closeness) for gender normative behavior” (“Difference Sex and Gender” n.pag.). This illustrates how children are dumping what plans they have, so their parents can be happy. Those children may have picked a toy that they would enjoy to play with rather that the gender appropriate one that was taught to them by their parents. Furthermore, the National
That statistic is jaw dropping. First grade girls have been introduced to gender roles, and have had them enforced to the point where they feel that they are too fat. When children are in first grade, being overweight should be the least of their concerns. They should be concerned about not having enough fun at that age, not having gender rules stabbed into their brain. In addition to this, in To Kill a Mockingbird, you find Scout who is about the same age as these first through third grade children. In the book, Scout proclaimed, “I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn't supposed to be doing things that required pants” (Lee 108). This book from the 1930’s reveals that gender roles have been existent for many many years. And in this particular case, Scout is being criticised for how she looks even though she is just a young child. For these reasons, gender roles need to abolished so that kids should not have to deal with any problems of how they look or what people think of