Assignment 3
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The Promotion of Androgyny and Equality in the Social Development of Children and
Improving Equality in our Society
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Inequalities Stemming From Gender Roles and Their Elimination through Androgynous Development in
Households
Three main ideas when looking at androgynous development of children in households:
1. Identifying the prevalence of inequality in the household by parents is a necessary step in the push for equality.
2. In order to break gender expectations created by gender roles, parents must create an androgynous environment during childhood to teach egalitarian attitudes.
3. Androgynous Environments are key in producing adults with gender equal identities, however evidence shows that children can’t comprehend inequalities until they are developmentally mature.
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1. Identifying the prevalence of inequality in the householdby parents and adolescents is a necessary step in the pushfor
equality.
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Figure 1. Perceptions of Status Inequality in the
Spheres of Politics and Business, Sorted by Age
(Early, Middle, or Late Adolescents) and Sex.
Responses Were Given on a 7-Point Scale that
Ranged from –3 (Women Have a Lot More
Power/Status) to 0 (equal) to 3 (Men Have a Lot More
Power/Status).
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1. Continued
• Individuals that fail to recognize inequality see no need for change.
• Parents have encouraged sex-typed activities (Witt, 1997).
• As the equality gap closes in the workplace, role conflict has increased in the household for women.
• Women not given same recognition as men in the household (Barret, 1982).
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2. In order to break gender expectations created bygender roles, parents must create an androgynous environmentduring
childhood to teach egalitarian attitudes.
• To accomplish androgynous orientation, the blending of both feminine and masculine attributes within the same individual must occur (Kets de Vries, 2015).
• Purchase gender neutral clothes, and accept masculine and feminine behaviors in both boys and girls (Witt, 1997).
• Parents must perform equal shares of domestic and maintenance chores (Kets de Vries, 2015).
• Parents who espouse an egalitarian attitude regarding gender roles are more likely to foster the same in their children (Kets de Vries, 2015).
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3. Androgynous environments are key in producingadults with gender equal identities, however evidence showsthat
children can’t comprehend inequalities until they are developmentally mature.
• Children use gender as an organizing convention early on, with little influence from society (Huston, 1983)
• Younger children are less aware of gender inequality than older adolescents (Neff, 2007)
• Once children obtain the ability to analyze they will understand the level of inequality still present in our society.
• By promoting standards of gender neutral households, inequality observed in society will become more obvious to detect, and easier to rectify as the gender equal population grows.
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Bibliography of Sources Referenced
Barrett, N. S. (1982). Obstacles to Economic Parity for Women. American Economic
Review, 72(2), 160-165.
Huston, A. C. (1983). Sex Typing In PH Mussen (Ed). Handbook of Child Psychology,
4th(4), 387-467.
Kets de Vries, M. F. R. (2015). The Sexual "Cloud" in the Executive Suite. INSEAD Working Papers Collection(38), 1-19.
Neff, K. D., Cooper Carey E.,Woodruff Althea L. (2007). Children's and Adolescents' Developing Perceptions of Gender Inequality. Social Development, 16(4), 682-699.
Witt, S. D. (1997). Parental influence on children's socialization to gender roles.
Adolescence, 32(126), 253.
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Student Biography
Jack Allen is a transfer student in his first semester at Old Dominion University. He is finishing his sophomore year this semester. He recently finished his obligated service in the United States Navy as an Aircraft Handler. He is Double Majoring in Criminal Justice and Sociology. Recently, he was hired at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center as a military wellness trainer. He is interested in this topic because he wants to end gender inequality, and is curious whether or not differences in how men and women communicate have led to the problem. He wants to see if the solution is to show that gender roles created by society are the source of inequality, and if raising children gender neutral will increase equality in the workplace. He is responsible for researching the effects of raising children in gender neutral households and the correlation to adults with gender neutral ideals.
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