Discuss How Gender Role Development Is Affected By Parents

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Please discuss how a person's gender role development is affected by their parents, peers, religion, teachers, and the media.

A person’s gender role development is affected by their parents when they find out the sex of their child or at birth. Parents tend to associate girls with dolls and boys with trucks. Also, they create nurseries that have gender-related color schemes to complement the room. In addition, they associate girls with feminine traits such as kind, emotional, and considerate, whereas boys are associated with masculine traits like ambitious, aggressive, and competitive. Furthermore, parents allow boys to have more freedom than girls (Berk, 2000).
However, peers have a stronger influence on ones’ gender role development because