Unit 3 Applied Reading Flashcards
gender connotation of foods
Meat, especially red meat, is considered the quintessential male food, whereas fruit, vegetables, dairy, desserts, and fish are considered typical female food.children prefer their stereotypical gender food choices
findings about gender stereotypes and foods among kids
-Globally, our preschool children exhibited an implicit gender stereotype about food by consistently associating feminine foods with women and masculine foods with men
-In particular, boys were more likely to sort food on the basis of gender (M = .22, SD = .56) than girls were (M = −.02, SD = .47).
-associated the same gender stereotypes for adults and children
-In contrast, the second regression revealed that mothers’ counter-stereotypical associations reduced their children’s food-gender explicit stereotypes; The more often they reported consuming counter-stereotypical foods, the less their children displayed explicit stereotypical associations between gender and food
-Our study suggests that boys internalize gender stereotypes about food earlier than girls and before being explicitly aware of them, but further research should confirm these results.
why do boys likely internalize these stereotypes sooner and more strongly than girls?
Boys behaving in a counter-stereotypical way run the risk of being assimilated into a disadvantaged group, lowering their social status, and receiving greater social blame than girls (Halim et al. 2014). For this reason, they may be more sensitive to gender-based associations within the environment and thus develop preconscious stereotypes earlier than girls.
factors influencing children’s implicit stereotypes of food
. In line with these differences, it seems that our children’s implicit stereotypes were not specifically affected by mothers but rather by the general environment, including not only family and relatives, but also school, teachers, peers, and media, as well as other vehicles of the wider culture.
stereotypical asssociations of food and children’s preferences for food
The third aim of our study was to verify whether the presence of stereotypical associations could predict children’s preferences for stereotypical food. The result showed the effect of explicit stereotypes: The more children explicitly associated food and gender in a stereotypical way, the more their likings were in line with gendered stereotypes.
are gender stereotypes for food implicit or explicit in kids?
our results showed that both boys and girls do not manifest awareness of food gender stereotypes because we did not observe food-gender associations at an explicit level.
