Concludes that there is a dearth of picture books containing female characters. (RB)

Examines one aspect of communicative competence: the recognition of linguistic correlates of sex roles. Acquisition occurred according to 2 patterns: (1) increasing approximation to adult norms, and (2) rule learning and rule differentiation. Timing of these developmental sequences is discussed. (GO)

Elementary school students were interviewed with the goal of determining characteristics and behavioral patterns they considered appropriate for one sex or the other in participation in sports. Children from kindergarten through the sixth grade were examined and compared by grade, sex, and race in their gender-related attitudes. The instrument…

Indicates few differences between the 1968 and 1975 studies. Shows that girls in 1974-1975 still demonstrate lower self-esteem and less high evaluations of their sex roles than their male counterparts. (RL)

The present study examined the impact of an experience with adults in sex-role reversed occupations upon elementary school children's sex-stereotyped beliefs. Subjects were 68 children in first, third, and fifth grades from a parochial elementary school in San Leandro, California. The adult occupations test, a paper and pencil assessment…

Children from grades one through six judged commercially produced advertisements, specially produced "pseudocommercials," and verbal descriptions as better suited to advertise a feminine or masculine sex-typed toy. Comprehension of sex-typed connotations was predicted by home television viewing patterns but not by general knowledge of sex…

Children's literature and school texts have reflected society's relegation of women to inferior, passive roles; while there is now an awareness that stereotypes and sexist terms should be eliminated, there is the danger that overreaction will diminish literary quality. (JD)

This dissertation explored the extent and kind of sex-role stereotyping in popular, prestigious, and sex-role defining children's picture books printed between 1959 and 1972. The sample consisted of two categories of popular children's picture books, best-selling golden books and "New York Times" children's best-sellers, one category of Caldecott…

Children's satisfaction with being a member of their own sex was explored within two Australian samples. Girls were less satisfied with their sex role than boys, and older girls were more dissatisfied than younger girls. In a sample chosen to include adequate representation of children of non-Anglo immigrants, non-Anglo girls were just as…

This study assessed the effects of portraying a female main character in a traditionally male role on male and female children's sex role perceptions and story evaluations. Exposure to nontraditional female characters increased children's perceptions of the number of girls who could engage in activities presented in the stories only. (Author/RD)

Television programming has long been recognized as an effective method of educating children. This paper investigated the degree of exposure an educational children's program, Sesame Street, gave to female and male characters and the extent to which these characters were stereotypically portrayed. Children's Television Workshop produces 110…

Reported in this document are the results of three experiments investigating the potential influence of peers in gender-role socialization. Children were exposed to a series of vignettes providing information about target children who varied in their degree of masculinity and femininity. Drawn from third through sixth grades, participants included…

The psychological, economic, and educational effects of sex stereotyping of children are the subjects of this resource book addressed, primarily, to teachers in elementary schools. Research has pointed out the fact that children of both sexes view maleness as more valued than femaleness. Some chapters in this book stress the importance of equal…