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Gender role standards

Gender role standards refer to attributes held by the culture for males and females. These attributes can include both precepts and sanctions.

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Gender role stereotypes

Gender role stereotypes is defined as oversimplified and widely held beliefs about the basic characteristics of men and women.

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Gender role/identity

Gender role/identity refers to a person's understanding and acceptance of gender roles.

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Gender schema

Gender schema refers to a set of mental associations in which individuals are seen from the point of view of their gender, as opposed to other characteristics. It is a cognitive structure used to process information in terms of gender-relatedness; a mentalistic structure consisting of a set of expectations and associations that guide processing with respect to gender. Likewise, Gender schemas refer to cognitive structures that guide the processing of gender-relevant information. Gender schemas are cognitive mechanism that helps us to understand gender.

Gender scheme

Gender scheme is defined as a personal theory about cultural expectations and stereotypes related to gender.

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Gender script

Gender script brefers to a particular type of Gender schema that is a temporally organized event sequence related to gender.

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Gender segregation

Gender segregation is defined as children’s tendency to associate with same-sex playmates and to think of the other sex as an out-group

Gender stability

Gender stability refers to the stage of gender identity in which the child recognizes that gender is stable over time; an understanding in pre-school children that boys become men and girls become women Gender stability is also defined as the concept that one's sex is a permanent feature.

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