PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Planation Surface, David Buss, Gender Empowerment Measure
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Eleanor maccoby: we still see gender segregation to this day: maccoby noted that this gender segregation has a history. Doesn"t just show up in adulthood, but the segregation goes back to childhood. In childhood we see clear preferences for segregated play. boys play with boys, and girls with girls. This is universal: gender segregation emerges spontaneously in situations in which children are not under pressure from parents to engage in cross-sex interaction. this behaviour becomes increasingly expressed over childhood. The ration of same-sex to cross-sex interaction is 3:1 at age four and 11:1 at age 6. War games & tea parties : boys in same-sex interaction: refuse to comply with another boy"s request/demand. interrupt one another, heckle a speaker, call one another names: girls in same-sex interaction: pause to give another girl a chance to speak. express agreement with what someone else has said.
