e second article focused on the damaging effects of sex role stereotyping on men and boys, girls and women. A few of these effects are highlighted below. A. 1. "The damage of stereotyping can be more irreparable for the boy than for the girl. When boys learn stereotyped behavior there is a twenty percent better chance that it will stay with them for life than when girls learn stereotyped behaviors" (VOW, 1).2. "Demands that boys conform to social notions of what is manly come much earlier and are reinforced with much more vigor than similar attitudes with respect to girls. Several research studies, using preschool children as their subjects, indicate that boys are aware of what is expected of them because they are boys and restrict their interests and activities to what is suitably masculine in kindergarten, while girls amble gradually in the direction of feminine patterns for five more years" (VOW, 1).A. 5. "Six volumes of studies document that violence in American society is taught, learned and acted upon. Boys are actually encouraged to be aggressive by parents while girls are not. Almost all TV models encourage aggression in men. Childhood aggression predictably results in continued undisguised aggression when boys become men" (VOW, 2).B. 7. "Most boys recognize they cannot prove themselves on all levels but they must still choose between two basic images of what a man is and can be images which are apparent from both childrens books and numerous other sources. One image is the physical striving man and the other, the job striving man" (VOW, 2).C. 5. "Boys are the maladjusted, the low achievers, the truants, the delinquents, the inattentive and the rebellious. National delinquency rates are five times higher among boys than girls; in New York City, 63% of all drop-outs are boys" (VOW, 4).D. 5. "Given the relative absence of male figures during his waking hours, the male toddler is hard pressed to find out wha...
