Discuss gender typing.

What will be an ideal response?


Answers will vary. According to Kohlberg, gender typing involves the emergence of three concepts: gender identity, gender stability, and gender constancy. The first step in gender typing is attaining gender identity. Gender identity is the knowledge that one is male or female. At two years, most children can say whether they are boys or girls. By the age of three, many children can discriminate anatomic gender differences (Campbell et al., 2004; Zosuls et al., 2011).At around age four or five, most children develop the concept of gender stability, according to Kohlberg. They recognize that people retain their gender for a lifetime.By the age of five to seven years, Kohlberg believes that most children develop the more sophisticated concept of gender constancy and recognize that people's gender does not change, even if they change their dress or behavior.

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