A Direct Approach to Sex-Role Identification of School-Related Objects
- 1 June 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 24 (3) , 839-841
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1969.24.3.839
Abstract
A study by Kagan (1964) indicated that girls may perform better than boys in academic settings because they perceive school as congruent with their sex-role. The present study extended Kagan's work by investigating how children classify school-related objects. In general, the results suggested that such objects as book, blackboard, library, and chalk were viewed as feminine by the fourth grade students. Girls, as expected, were more inclined than boys to label the school-related objects as feminine. Implications for future studies were discussed.Keywords
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