Educational Article- Gender Stereotype and parenting

It is just all about cultures, women are mostly considered as not strong and having the less ability to understand and learn well than man. They prefer to spend their time at home by cooking, cleaning and looking after children. On the other hand women are also mostly considered as more generous and calmer and softer than men. Moreover, women are seen as solicitous creatures who try their best to make their husbands happy and taking care about children and whole family.

Like female, also man is a gender which is stereotyped among cultures. Men are considered as stronger and having more ability to understand and learn well than women. In addition, men are a main person in family who works to provide the money that the family needs to live on. Men expect their wives to follow their rules which include keeping households well, cooking and cleaning.

According to Gender Stereotypes and Parenting article on education.com website, as parents, both wife and husband have important role in educating their children. Through communication with them both parents formally present stereotype thinking at home.  Parents have a significant power to have an effect on children’s career development through family relationship, behavior, beliefs and opportunity which they provide. Dr. Kathleen Moritz Rudasill and Dr. Carolyn M. Callahan claim that due to strong, close and lasting relationship between parents and their children, it is easier to transmit parents’ values, beliefs and interest which are in connection with children’s career choices an success. Moreover, children’s career goals and values are almost same like parents’ ones. Dr. Rudasill and Dr. Callahan state that mothers could be more influential than fathers or teachers at school. Those who have a strong bond with their mothers have higher self-concept and tend to put more value on school. Also Fathers play a significant role in educating children as well. According to Dr. Rudasill and Dr. Callahan, parents tend to help their children with school homework in gender-stereotypic ways; for example, father may help with math homework and mother with language arts homework. In addition, parents are likely to put their children to the thinking that boys are good at math and science and girls are good at language and arts.  

According to Study at the University of Virginia which is placed in this article, it was found that boys and girls have equal high perception of their abilities in all academic areas except for humanities where girls have slightly higher score than boys.  However, parents still see that their sons are better in math and science and their daughters are better in the humanities. Then it could be expected that children view would have similar pattern. Therefore, it would be very difficult to encourage girls to believe that they may obtain in traditionally male areas such as math, science or physics and also encourage boys that they could be good in arts, languages, music or dance which are female domains.

As parents, it is significantly important to know that ideas of male and female characteristics and quality should be put on both genders. According to research, children who have both female and male view on careers are more likely to choose jobs which they like rather than based on stereotypes of what kind of jobs are for females and males. Therefore, if parents want to bring happiness for their children and want to have successful and satisfied kids, they should cultivate open lines of communication with them and also have in mind that children should have the opportunity to choose their own future life and career.

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