TY - JOUR
T1 - Teaching children to confront peers' sexist remarks
T2 - Implications for theories of gender development and educational practice
AU - Lamb, Lindsay M.
AU - Bigler, Rebecca S.
AU - Liben, Lynn S.
AU - Green, Vanessa A.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Elementary-school children (81 boys, 72 girls, aged 5-10 years) in the Southwest United States were taught to challenge peers' sexist remarks to (a) improve school climate for gender nontraditional children, (b) decrease children's gender-typed attitudes, and (c) test hypotheses linking gender identity and peer-directed gender role behaviors. Children either practiced using retorts to peers' sexist remarks (practice condition) or heard stories about others' retorts (narrative condition). At pretest, children rarely challenged peers' sexist remarks. At posttest, children's challenges were significantly more common in the practice than narrative condition. At the 6-month posttest, data showed intervention effects had become more widespread. Behavioral changes led to decreases in gender-typing of others among girls but not boys.
AB - Elementary-school children (81 boys, 72 girls, aged 5-10 years) in the Southwest United States were taught to challenge peers' sexist remarks to (a) improve school climate for gender nontraditional children, (b) decrease children's gender-typed attitudes, and (c) test hypotheses linking gender identity and peer-directed gender role behaviors. Children either practiced using retorts to peers' sexist remarks (practice condition) or heard stories about others' retorts (narrative condition). At pretest, children rarely challenged peers' sexist remarks. At posttest, children's challenges were significantly more common in the practice than narrative condition. At the 6-month posttest, data showed intervention effects had become more widespread. Behavioral changes led to decreases in gender-typing of others among girls but not boys.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11199-009-9634-4
DO - 10.1007/s11199-009-9634-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70449523197
SN - 0360-0025
VL - 61
SP - 361
EP - 382
JO - Sex Roles
JF - Sex Roles
IS - 5-6
ER -