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Defining gender roles already

April 6, 2005 by Jen at Semantically driven

Over the last couple of days JJ has said things to me like, he can’t work in that shop because he’s a man, or she can’t drive a truck because she’s a woman.

Where has he got these things from?

I know he has a couple of old books that talk about jobs like fireMAN, policeMAN, nurse (woman) and so on and I try not to encourage him reading these. I probably should just take them away but nowhere in my vocabulary is there any mention of only women working in shops or only men driving trucks.

I made sure to tell him that women can drive trucks and that men can work in shops.

I know he wasn’t absolutely convinced.

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