Gender stereotype

The differences between nature, which means what we inherit from our parents, and nurture, which means what we learn from our parents, are apparent in the gender roles of children. Children inherit their sex (male or female); however, children learn their gender roles because, parents dress them, socialize them and teach them how to express their emotions according to their gender.
Mothers dress girls differently from boys. Usually mothers dress their children in specific coloured clothes, with pink for girls and blue for boys. Parents are more concerned about how pretty their daughters are, but worried less about their sons’ appearance. Furthermore, parents buy gender-specific toys for their children, dolls and domestic toys for girls and cars, guns and building blocks for boys.
In addition, parents focus on gender-role socialization, which means, girls are encouraged to care about their families and rely on others especially males, while boys are encouraged to be independent and to direct their attention to the world outside their families. Moreover, when children get older, there are a lot of activities allowed to boys which are not allowed to girls; for example, boys can go to many places and be late, whereas girls can not.
As a result of parents’ socialization, fathers and mothers deal differently with the children. It means that mothers talk more politely than father do; moreover, girls tend to imitate their mothers whereas, boys tend to imitate their fathers. Therefore, parents’ behaviour is reflected in the children. Parents prompt girls to express their emotions; on the other hand, boys are taught to behave like men and told that boys don’t cry.
To summarise, families tend to bring up new born babies according to their gender from the first moment of birth and they continue doing that until children get older. As a result of parents’ teaching gender roles to children by dressing, socializing and telling them how to express their emotions, children learn how to behave according to their gender.