Visualizing Sociology in Everyday Life

20. As a parent, what efforts do you make to ensure that your child acts and appears in gender-appropriate ways?

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As a parent, what efforts do you make to ensure that your child acts and appears in gender-appropriate ways?

photo: Lisa Southwick

As a parent, what efforts do you make to ensure that your child acts and appears in gender-appropriate ways?

photo: Lisa Southwick

Often we mistakenly attribute physical and behavioral differences between men and women to nature, when in fact many of those differences are socially created. We fail to consider how hard men and women must work to achieve these culturally imposed ideas of masculinity and femininity.

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