Gender Influences on Identity: How we view ourselves and the people around us is influenced by gender among other things. From infancy, we are taught to think about males and females in very different ways. This partly shapes our sense of self. In childhood, we tend to comment about boys size, strength, and activities and about girls beauty, kindness, and facial responsiveness; labeling some behaviours as masculine and others as feminine. This same principle occurs in adulthood. For example, men who…
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