Question

Josephine, a five- year- old girl always sees her mother performing household chores and her father going out to work. hence, she thinks that only females perform household chores and males go out to work. from the above example, it can be observed that josephine has developed a ________ with regard to females.

Answer 1

The answer is gender schema. This was a theory that presented by Sandra Bem in 1981 as an intellectual hypothesis to clarify how people progress toward becoming gendered in the public arena, and how sex-connected qualities are kept up and transmitted to different individuals from a culture.