Posted on 24. Sep, 2004 by Brian Reid in General
Lots of stuff to post, but diminishing time in which to post ‘em this week. Check back as I go through my backlog.
But … I wanted to throw one study out there. This piece of work from Penn State takes an interesting look at “girls’ sex-typed activities” — whether they’re girlie girls or tomboys. Of interest to stay-at-home dads: “neither girls’ nor their parents’ attitudes about appropriate roles for women and men predicted the girls’ involvement in any activities …”
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27. Sep, 2004
Wow, what a dismayingly designed study. I think the part that bothered me most was:
“Girls’ and parents’ feminine personality qualities (e.g., sensitivity, kindness)”
Are we really back to that? My god, I remember going to a student leaders’ conference back in ’84 and being made incredibly uncomfortable by these old hippie feminists who were trying to undo our male/female-qualities brainwashing. They couldn’t figure out that none of us girls there in the power shoulders thought that way in the first place.