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The End of Gender? Not really...

ycombinator

June 24, 2011

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http://www.npr.org/2011/06/23/137342682/the-end-of-gender

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Title	The End of Gender? Not really...
Author	ycombinator
Upvotes	9
Comments	5
Date	June 24, 2011 3:02 AM UTC (15 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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For example this one: Why boys will pick Bob over Barbie - children are genetically programmed, say scientists

Boys are genetically programmed to prefer Bob the Builder to Barbie dolls, say scientists. Tests involving children as young as three months suggest biological differences and not social pressures dictate which toys children like to play with.

The U.S. study looked at babies aged three to eight months - before they can identify even the gender of other people.

Researchers placed a doll and truck inside a puppet-theatre style box and showed them to 30 children - 17 boys and 13 girls - for two ten-second intervals.

The findings, from researchers at Texas A&M University, overturn conventional wisdom that children's toy preferences are down to social conditioning.

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Boys are thought to prefer playing with cars and balls because they involve moving objects and rough and tumble play.

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The study reinforces the findings of previous research by Dr Alexander involving green vervet monkeys.

Male monkeys spent more time playing with traditional male toys such as a car and a ball than did female monkeys.

The female monkeys, however, spent more time playing with a doll and a pot than did the males.

Both male and female monkeys spent about the same amount of time with 'gender neutral' toys such as a picture book and a stuffed frog.