I shudder to think how hard it would be with a sixteen or seventeen year old. Because it was located fairly close to where we lived, and because most of us had small children, my fellow students and I became somewhat paranoid about child sexual abuse. Boys play in the sandbox and girls play in the housekeeping area. Girls wear dresses and boys don't. So, by age three, this young lady had learned gender roles.
Gender roles are attitudes and activities that a society links to each sex.
This is particularly interesting because this little girl's mommy happens to be a doctor. Gender identity is knowing whether you are a boy or a girl. Gender roles are your conceptions of how a boy or girl should act and be. Or How I found out that I am not as important as I thought I used to think, back before I had children and therefore knew everything about how to raise them correctly, that I couldraise a child unaffected by social stereotypes. MY daughter was not going to be restricted.