Biological differences between men and women

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It is hardly controversial to note that there are biological differences between men and women. Gender typing, though, focuses on expectations regarding social preferences, behavioral patterns, and how one presents oneself physically, and most of us would agree that teasing young children for exhibiting gender-"inappropriate" tendencies is not a good thing. Clearly, children are going to learn to categorize people by gender and other social dimensions do one think this means that gender typing and other forms of stereotypes are inevitable? In other words, can children learn to recognize physical difference (and similarity) between people without jumping to conclusions about how they will or should act?

Should we strive to prevent such conclusions, or does the answer to this question differ depending on whether we are talking about gender versus another dimension such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or others? Use both material from the chapter and personal experiences in the response.

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