Although the infants did not differ on any objective measures, girls were rated as littler, softer, finer featured, and more inattentive than boys. The careers that children imagine for males and females are influenced by sex stereotypes. Approximately 70 percent of the children replied with a job considered appropriate for the imagined sex. Thus, from an early age, girls and boys learn to think of most careers as being appropriate for either men or women but not both. I'm sure she wasn't just telling me this because I was the one who asked the question.
Stereotypes also exist specific to the computer world.
We returned to that school and asked 42 children whether they thought computers were for girls, and then we asked whether computers were for boys. Most children answered this question. The parents, outraged at this sexism, went to see the hospital administration. They were promised that in the future, this would be corrected. The next year, a similar tour was arranged, and at the end, the parents came by to pick up their children.