Make a list of toys and games that boys typically play and another for girls. If there is a difference between the two lists, can you think of some reasons why this is so? Does this have any relationship to the roles children have to play as adults?
List of toys and games that boys play with: cars, guns, swords, buses, railway trains, lions, etc. (toys), cricket, kabaddi, hockey, football, etc. (games).
List of toys and games that girls play with: dolls, cooking items, etc. (toys)', badminton, table tennis, hide and seek, etc. (games). These games are also played by the boys.
From the above description, we can infer that there is a difference between the toys with which boys play and the toys with which girls play.
The reason behind this is that our society makes clear distinctions between boys and girls.
Boys are taught to be tough while girls are taught to be mild.
Boys are expected to do works that highlight their manly features but girls are expected to remain in limit with all feminine virtues.
All these are ways of telling children that they have specific roles to play when they grow up to be men and women.
Later in life, this affects even the subjects they can study or the careers they can choose.