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How can I make notes with bullet points in this paragraph? Stability of Gender Typing In spite of these overall shifts in gender typing during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, individuals who are strongly masculine or feminine at one age tend to continue to be strongly masculine or feminine as they age. Researchers studying a representative sample of 5,500 boys and girls in England found that children whose behavior was most gender typed in the preschool years were still most gender typed at age 8 (Golombok et al., 2008). Even adult behavior may be predicted from gender-typed interests in childhood. In one longitudinal study in the United States, boys who were interested in competitive games and activities that required gross motor skills and girls who were interested in noncompetitive games, cooking, sewing, and reading were involved in similar gender-typed activities in adulthood (Kagan & Moss, 1962). Stability was especially strong when children's characteristics were congruent with gender stereotypes. When children do not act in gender-typed ways in childhood, researchers have found, this, too, is stable across time. Some boys' behavior in childhood is gender nonconforming-they don't like sports, prefer playing girls' games, and are often called sissies. These boys were likely to see themselves as more feminine and to be more interested in female-stereotyped occupations in adulthood. Similarly, girls who didn't like dresses and were called "tomboys" in childhood. Need Assignment Help?