Young childrens attitudes towards cross-gender play and toys.

Young children's attitudes toward cross-gender typed toys were measured in this experiment. Due to the fact that, children are receptive to societal pressures at a young age, two experiments were conducted to test whether or not gender specific toys influenced both boys and girls.. In the first experiment conducted, children received task related gender typed information, task unrelated information, or no gender information at all. In the second experiment, however, the children were asked their …

…data, boys were seen as more likely to be influenced by society when choosing a cross sex toy. To further support this idea, the results of study 2 showed that the male subjects already possessed some kind of gender stereotyped awareness without being told by the experimenter which was and was not a cross-sex toy. As a result, drawing from the evidence, it is clear that children's gender stereotypes do exist and are strongest among boys