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Peer reviewedMartin, Carol Lynn – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1995
Assessed adults' stereotypes of gender-traditional and nontraditional children by analyzing undergraduates' ratings of the desirability of 25 personality traits, and their classifying children as "tomboys" or "sissies" based on 26 traits and behaviors. Results show extensive adult stereotyping of young children. Tomboys were stereotyped similar to…
Descriptors: Femininity, Individual Characteristics, Masculinity, Sex Role
