GENDER AND

SOCIALIZATION
What is
Gender?
Gender is a social construct. An
individual's gender is their social
identity resulting from their culture's
conceptions of masculinity and
feminity.
Individual develop their own
identity, influenced gender in
process of gender part by the
socialization.
What is Socialization?
Socialization is the process
through which individuals become
members of society. It includes the
processes of
acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes,
beliefs, values and behaviors
necessary to function within society.
Socialization begins at birth and
continues throughout life.
What is Gender
Socialization?
Gender Socialization is a process whereby humans in
the
course of social interaction as well as exposure
reactions to diverse information are and moulded
and images of
continually shaped to culturally appropriate
femaleness and maleness.
Gender socialization is the process of teaching
individuals how to behave under the social expectations
of their gender, known as gender roles.
GENDER SOCIALIZATION
IN CHILDHOOD
Early childhood is the time when gender socialization starts.
Infants as young as six months old can distinguish between male and
female sounds, and by the time they are nine months old, they can tell
the difference between men and women in pictures.
Infants learn to link sound and vision between the ages of 11 and
14 months, identifying images of men and women with the voices of
various genders.
Children have developed a gender identity by the time they are three
years old. The toys, pastimes, attitudes, and behaviors that are linked
with each gender have also started to be taught to them, along
with the gender norms of their culture.
GENDER SOCIALIZATION
IN ADOLESCENCE
Adolescents who enter the workforce continue to
undergo gender socialization.
When teenagers start their first employment, they run
into preconceptions about how women perform in the
workforce.
Adolescent perceptions of the differences in behavior
between men and women in the workplace will
shaped be by these early experiences in
world. the corporate
AGENTS OF GENDER
SOCIALIZATION
Parents
Teachers
Peer Group
Mass Media
Community
Religion
PARENTS
Parents are typically a child's
first source of information
about gender. Starting at birth,
parents
communicate different
expectations to children
their
depending on their sex.
The child may learn from
their parents that certain
activities or toys correspond
with a particular gender (think
of a family that gives their son
a truck and their daughter a
TEACHER
S administrators
Teachers and
model
school
gender
roles and sometimes
demonstrate gender stereotypes
by responding to male and
female students in different
ways. For example, separating
students by gender for
activities or disciplining
students differently depending
on their gender may reinforce
children's developing beliefs
PEER GROUP
Peer interactions also contribute
to gender socialization. Children
tend to play with same gender
peers. Through these
interactions, they learn what their
peers expect of them as boys or
girls.
MASS
MEDIA
Media, including movies, TV,
and books, teaches
children about what it means
to be a boy or a girl.
Media conveys information
about the role of
gender in people's lives
and gender
reinforce can
stereotypes.
Mass Media in Gender Socialization includes

Linguistic
sexism The Print
Media Television
LINGUISTIC
SEXISM
Language is a medium of socialization. A child
learns the language of his or her culture and
shapes his/her behavior in accordance with
that culture.
Women's conversation have a cooperative
character, where a s men's conversation are
more competitive, less social and more
individualistic.
THE PRINT
MEDIA
The print media plays a significant
role in gender socialization.
Whereas most magazines
concentrate on finance, business,
sports, technology, hobbies and sex,
women's as well as man's
magazines.
TELEVISION
Television is the most
popular form of
media and electronic
it
important agentis of the
gender
socialization. kost
COMMUNITY
Every culture or community has
different guidelines about what is
appropriate for males and females
and family members may socialize
children in gendered ways.
Norms for girls seem to get more
stringent after they attain puberty.
Norms regarding their playing,
dressing manner,
interactions
(especially with man).
RELIGIO
N roles in many ways. It also shapes
Religion shapes gender and family

the division of labor in the home .

Religion is one of the cultural
agents that shapes gender
ideologies.
Religion often plays a critical role
in presenting patriarchy as
inevitable, inescapable, and
ultimately correct.
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