The Way That Children Do Gender Is

question 20

Multiple Choice

The way that children do gender is

• A)increasingly inflexible as they learn increasing numbers of rules about doing gender correctly.
• B)more flexible and less binary than their parents typically expect.
• C)a reflection of greater biological predispositions toward fashion and nurturance among girls and for guns and trucks among boys,which most parents have to acknowledge.
• D)more rigid and binary than the way adults do gender because they are still learning the rules in all their complexity.

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