Gender Roles On The Screen Analysis

In the experiment conducted by Cobb, Stevens-Long and Goldstein, they have looked at how gender roles portrayed on the screen directly affect children and discovers that gender roles do influence children’s behavior. The experimenters played two videos that have Sesame Street Muppets talking about a group of gender-neutral toys and then allowed the child to play with a variety of toys of their own choice. The female video showed the Muppets saying that the toys were for girls because they could care for them or look at themselves with them, and in the male video, the Muppets described the toys as better for boys because they could punch them or race them. The experiment found that the videos did influence the children’s choice selection and