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Adolescent Gender Research in the U.S.: Trends in Research and Theory

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This chapter examines trends in research on gender development. In particular, we highlight some current work on adolescent girls with the goal of informing future research, policy, and program development for adolescent girls. Well before adolescence, girls and boys have definite ideas about what they perceive to be appropriate behaviors, appearance, and roles for each gender. Adolescents often focus and embrace gender roles and differentiate themselves from the other gender. One indication of the strong interest in the study of gender is the number of different theories that describe gender socialization and gender role development of children and adolescents. In this chapter we provide an overview of the theoretical perspectives that have been guiding gender research on children and adolescence in the US for the past two or three decades. We then summarize recent research on the impact of gender. Finally, we conclude by discussing the implications of these findings. We will primarily discuss research findings addressing gender development in girls for several reasons. First, it draws attention to a generally underrepresented group in US research and policy debates. Second, research on gender mainly focuses on gender differences; however, we want to emphasize the variability within one gender and thereby de-emphasize differences between the sexes. Third, while boys face many of the same developmental challenges as girls, the pubertal changes girls experience seem to especially impact their adjustment in adolescence. Hence, it is important to better understand the particular aspects of girls’ development.

Girls play at being pretty, but boys play cars Boys don’t clean house and girls don’t get dirty Boys stay outside as long they want but girls can’t. Boys don ‘tplay hopscotch. Girls don’t play rough or get sweaty Girls are cute and harmless and don’t get as muddy as boys. (Freedman 1995)

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Ittel, A., Anderson, K.J. (2004). Adolescent Gender Research in the U.S.: Trends in Research and Theory. In: Merkens, H., Zinnecker, J. (eds) Jahrbuch Jugendforschung. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-80634-5_16

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