The media shaping children’s Future
It is no surprise that children are shaped by patriarchal believes
instilled by their parents. From an
early age children are cocooned into an environment that promotes gender
assimilation. For example, baby girls
preferred color is pink while boys is blue.
This continues through their younger years by assigning specific toys
for specific genders. Parents encourage
girls to play with dolls developing their communication skills while boys play
with Legos making them spatially aware.
This may have an effect on the development of children’s skills. There are several misconceptions of girls and boys academic abilities. As the
video explained “higher female performance in math correlates with
higher levels of
gender equity in individual nations”. Therefore the number one reason
why such gender gap exists is because adults instill misguided believes
upon our youth. Society including media which sets a standard, an expected behavior which follows an individual from the time
they are born In my research paper I mentioned several ways in which the gender stereotype can be avoided. The most important one, treating teachers biases. That is the reason why I chose to research this subject, to shine a light and inform others about how biases carried from patriarchal believes can be inherited. http://womenandmediasp2015.blogspot.com/2015/05/final-project_16.html
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