Children Are Socialised Into Gender

Psychology (Humanities), 1981

Girls only like dolls because, society.

The first attempt to definitely codify nurture-essentialism as a basis for social engineering was made by dating-failure and psychologist Sandra Bern in 1981 with her proposed Gender Schema Theory on sex-typing. Unfortunately, Bern based the entire thing on the memorisation of words and ignored the basic scientific fact that infants unexposed to social influence display gendered behaviour. Sad.

• https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&content=gender+schema
• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=gender+schema
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Bem
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_schema_theory
• http://sociologyindex.com/sex_sex-typing_and_sexism.htm