These differences will define their lives as adults
Don’t believe that biology alone can explain these differences, they lie in the societies we live in.
Stop treating our boys and girls differently.
From the moment they are born they are aware of gender, from the clothes that they wear, to the language people use.
They have set mind sets on what is acceptable for their gender.
boys games give them better awareness of spatial awareness, which gives male dominance in maths, science, mechanics and architecture.
Or is that male and female brains are structurally different.
The brain is very plastic, mouldable and changeable.
Brain of someone who did play with lego, did play with dolls etc.
The world shapes the skills they develop.
Overwhelming avalanche of blue of boys and pink for girls.
Don’t necessarily have aisles made for boys and girls.
If children’s brains are moulded by the world around them then this total divide between what’s a boy’s world and what’s a girls world.
What does the pink and blue world look like to a parent.
If little girls play with certain toys, then it has a fundamental effect on how their brains develop.
Dress up dolls and craft sets won’t help girls become an engineer.
When we give children the presents we think they want, all’s it does is effect what they are capable of.
Nerf and nerf rebel guns.
Nature/nurture argument.
Children occupy a world where children are giving them messages constantly about what it’s like to be a boy or a girl.
Parents say it’s in their child’s nature just to act a certain way or like a certain toy, it came from them.
In clothes that parents buy for their children.
We stereotype our kids.
Unisex toilets
Their offers are limited when there iso only a world that offers only blue for boys and pink for girls.
Goes some way to explain why men and women follow much different paths in life.
Toys with a mechanic and engineering focus were 3 times more likely to be focused at boys.
Changing the environment, levelling out the skill difference through play.
It is a preference that is in many ways learnt.
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