Question

"especially, encourage in children what they perceive to be gender-appropriate behaviors, fostering more independence, competitiveness, and aggression in sons and more emotional expressiveness and gentleness in daughters"

Answer 1

"Fathers" especially, encourage in children what they perceive to be gender-appropriate behaviors, fostering more independence, competitiveness, and aggression in sons and more emotional expressiveness and gentleness in daughters".

Many studies have shown that most fathers do more talking to their daughters and when it comes to actions and other activities they engage more with their sons, similarly mothers get more confidential and talk about emotions and relations to the daughters than the sons which make daughters more emotionally expressive and gentle