>>I recently read (though it's not new) Deborah Tannen's "Talking from 9 to 5" and it talks a lot about these issue.
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>>>>Tamar
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>>>Would be interested in hearing some examples.
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>>I'm curious enough that I'm going to shell out 10 bucks and get the Kindle version of this.
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>>I don't buy into any of the garbage (and it is garbage) that one gender gets into trouble for acting like how they perceive the other gender successfully conducts themselves, only to be ridiculed for it. It's lazy thinking and nothing more than a window dressing excuse for the actual sin of putting one's personality above one's work.
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>>But I'm going to read this anyway.
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>FWIW, Tannen is a linguist with a long history of studying talk in an academic way as well as writing about it for popular audiences.
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>The underlying issues have a lot to do with how we socialize boys and girls. As I mentioned up front, the book is not new. It's about 20 years old. I'd be very interested in seeing new research in this area, to see whether the issues are still as significant for people raised more recently.
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>Tamar

All you really need to do is go to any toy store (or the toy area) and see the 'pink' aisles full of baby dolls, BRATZ dolls, Barbie dolls. prettyprettyprincesscrap. Yeah....the way we socialize girls vs boys hasn't changed in 20 years.