Children's Search For Gender Virtues Summary

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In the article “Children’s Search for Gender Cues; Cognitive Perspectives on Gender Development,” by two authors, both Carol Lynn Martin and Diane Ruble, who discuss developmental stages children go through when discovering gender roles. Something known as gender-schema theory is mentioned as the “idea that children form organized knowledge structures, or schemas, which are gender-related conceptions of themselves and others, and that these schemas influence children’s thinking and behavior” (pg. 67). I come from a large family, with a lot of children, majority of whom I have watched grow up. While reading this article, I could not help but to relate it to my niece and younger cousins, who began recognizing gender roles from a young age. Multiple themes of cognitive theories were mentioned, one of those being the evaluative consequences of gender development. Here, the authors discuss how children evaluate groups and rate them better by identifying. If a young girl walks into a classroom where there are two groups of children playing, one being all girls, and the other being boys, she is more likely to go over to the other girls, since it is rare for young children to play with members of the opposite sex. At an early age, kids will relate positive traits to people of the same sex. …show more content…
During the party, when looking for a child, it was pretty easy to find them due to the separation between the little girl’s friends, and the little boy’s friends. The young girls were running around with their babies, strollers, and playing with the dogs. Meanwhile, the boys had big Tonka trucks, and wrestled with action figures. When it came time to leave, looking back at something I did not think twice about at the time, I realize that the parents help the children associate the differences between boy and girl, since each sex had different goodie
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