Film Shows Kids As Young As Five Have Already Picked Up Gender Stereotypes

A new short film has highlighted how children as young as five years old have already learnt common gender stereotypes and think of certain career opportunities as being more likely to be filled by men. Kids in a school were asked to draw people in job roles, including firefighters, surgeons and pilots.
“Have a think in your head what this person looks like to you,” one of the teachers asked them.
Out of the 66 pictures drawn by the children, 61 pictures were of men and only five were of women.


http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/gender-stereotypes-inspiring-the-future-film_uk_56e81d90e4b03fb88ede354e


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Now is this because of how books, the media, kids TV etc have vastly males playing these job roles, that it creates in the mind of the child they then are associated with these roles?