She is constantly with her mother and other women and learns through these relationships. Boys' development is characterized by discontinuity because he is also usually in the company of women. They are less likely to relate to men and even women, instead play alone or with other boys. These leads children towards the expected male and female roles. Men being achievement oriented and self-reliant and women being nurturant and responsible.
Females have more flexible ego boundaries, are more present oriented and more subjective.
Carlson agrees with both Bakan and Gutmann. Men's associations are more likely to cut across kinship units, be unigenerational, and involve universalistic criteria and responsibilities. This means that the mother-daughter relationship may entail a lack of separation and boundary confusion. Guilt for other's actions, over-identification of mother with daughter, loss of self in responsibility for others, etc. Daughters may project her own bad qualities onto her mother and keep the good ones in herself.