An experiment to determine if childhood socialization remains through high school
             Candidate's Name: Caitlin Hansard
             Candidate's Number: 0648 009 Psychology HL
             Date of Submission: 22 December 2000
             The researcher conducted an experiment to determine if teenagers still applied the gender roles they were taught as children to different professional jobs today. This experiment was conducted on a random sample of male and female high school students, ages 15 through 18, at a small rural high school in the western portion of the United States. This experiment was conducted during the lunch hour of the participants. Results from this experiment were directly in line with data found during research. Nearly all of the participating students drew the teacher and the nurse as females, while the lawyer and the policeperson were drawn as males. The researcher used long hair and/or a dress to signify a female and short hair with pants to signify a male. (See appendix ii for a sample drawing.)
             "Our society seeks to deemphasize racial distinctions but continues to exaggerate sexual distinctions" (Bem, 1981). While our society continues in its emphasis of gender differentiation, younger generations are being brought up to know these differences. Due to the fact that children are being brought up knowing the differences in male and female abilities or characteristics they carry this into their adult lives, thus creating jobs that are "appropriate" for each gender
             Edelbrock and Sugawara (1978) say that there is "appropriate masculine and feminine behavior" (Biller, 1968; Brown, 1956b). These appropriate behaviors are taught to young children, guaranteeing that as adults they will know exactly what their place in society is.
             Society focuses more on making little boys out to be "men". Edelbrock and Sugawara (1978) also say, "Boys are also subject to more restrictive sex role socializat...