How Do Gender Influence Gender Roles

Gender Roles in Toys, Games, and Media

Most children remember the kinds of things they played as kids. Like hopscotch, playing house, watched Yu-Gi-Oh! And played with the cards, marbles, or maybe even spent their time playing GameBoy. However did any of these childhood entertainments have an effect on us growing up? And does it influence and encourage our Gender Roles? For the most part toys, games, and media do have an effect to some extent it does reinforce our idea of gender roles when children grow up and play into their character.

In most societies when children are born, they are immediately enculturated to what their gender is, in which they adapt to the cultural norms and characteristics of that society, which is different from sex,

For example, in America once an Infant is born the first question that typically comes into one 's mind is “Is it a boy or a girl?” That question then leads to having what items that child should have to play with. If you go into Toys-R-Us or a children 's clothing store, there’s no requirement for a label to indicate where the boys or girls section is. If a child is born a girl most of us can already imagine pink, soft, dolls, stuff toys, dress-up games along with hair and Make-Up. Then, if the kid is a boy we already see Blue, rough and tough activities, Cars, action video games, action-figures, and sports. Both examples of incongruous gender typing where it refers to the characteristics that relate to an individual non-biologically. Another example of recognizing gender differences is within the media. When children watch television shows, most are not gender neutral, for example an old American children 's TV show called Barney. Barney is a television series that ran from 1992 and is still ongoing. Within the show there are two main characters with him (not including riff) and that 's baby bop and B.J. They’re siblings within the show and it’s obvious that the characters strongly represent

There’s peer influence as well as certain activities that are expected from children by their own parents, although sometimes it 's not entirely intentional. That would include clothing, behavior, and materials they’re to play with such as dolls or trucks. If the kids were to reject their culture 's expectations, similar to most cultures, deviating from the norm is frowned upon, so that factor reinforces the idea of gender role and identity within households, schools, and neighborhoods. Now in environmental influences, in school kids are taught pretty early to learn what the idea of shame is and they learn to be embarrassed and next time around to make sure that they fit in and at an earlier time if a kid too different they grow up to be an outcast. Children also commonly model their parents and, usually, are often closer to the parent who shares the same gender as that child. This includes if Mom washes the dishes and she’s naturally understanding and appeals more to caring side while Dad appears more as a sort of rigid wallet (again, stereotypes of course). The kid would also notice the occupations of what a female and male would have in that society, which is the Sexual Division of Labor (DSL) the term that comes from Hunter and Gatherer Societies which is similar to the idea of Gender Stratification. The SDL refers to the specialized jobs for each gender and promotes the