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Boys pretty much dress like they have always dressed - baggy pants and a t-shirt or baggy shirt or sweats. There is a huge socialization difference between how girls and boys dress, and how they see each other by the time it comes to high school. I was socialized to always look my best and always try to be attractive to the boys who paid attention to me. I think women have much more pressure on them to look good and be attractive with whatever it takes - makeup, clothing, hair, and today even plastic surgery for teens. Women are taught from a young age that they have to be attractive to attract a man, and that is the "ultimate" goal in life for most women, to attract a man. Therefore, that starts very early, even earlier than junior high school, when young girls get dolls like Barbie. These dolls establish "norms" for women that might never be attainable, but start the socialization/attractiveness policies very early for most girls. Barbie is beautiful and so she has Ken, and to get a "perfect" man like Ken, girls must be beautiful and perfect.

The socialization process continues in the educational choices most women make. In high school and college, girls are still encouraged to take up more traditionally female occupations like nursing, teaching, and some areas of business. Women in engineering, mathematics, and most areas of technology are still subtly discouraged, although more women are entering those areas, (just as more women are playing more sports). For the most part, society socializes women by telling them where they can succeed and where they will fail, which does not take into account the personality and strength of the woman at all. In high school, I was interested in science and biology, but my guidance counselor gently turned me toward teaching, instead, noting what a good "role model" I was in the classroom.

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I think that I might have enjoyed those areas of study, and have pursued them in college, but not as much as I thought I would when I was in high school.

Finally, although she does not really recognize it, my mother has been subtly socializing me as a woman throughout my life. She encouraged me to help her around the house, as I noted, and as I got older, she taught me how to cook and do crafts, which I really enjoy, but seem to be more "womanly" pursuits in our house. She also taught me things like how to set the table for parties, how to clean and dust, what things to use when you clean the kitchen and bathroom, and how to do laundry, and things like that. She did not teach my brother hardly any of those things, but my dad did teach him how to do projects around the house, hunt, and things like that. There is a difference between how my brother and I were raised, and I think that is the socialization process that comes with being male and female in our society. My mom did what she knew, and my dad did what he knew, and together, they socialized their children to be what society sees as the roles for men and women, and perhaps not what really fits us as children and adults......

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