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__**Gender Conformity**__ **Big Picture Question:** What gender is more likely to conform? **Specific Question:** If gender signs are placed on doors leading to the same place, which gender is more likely to conform?

** Hypothesis: ** If we post male and female signs on glass doors going into a mall, and watch to see which gender is more likely to conform, then we will see that females will be more likely to conform. - We came up with this hypothesis because we thought that females tend to be closer and care about being together. Most women go to places like restrooms, hair salons, hospitals, stores, and cafes together, but men do not really go to these places with other men. From this, we predicted that women will be more likely to conform than men.


 * Procedure: **
 * 1) Find two separate doors that are close to each other at school, store, mall, where both genders go.
 * 2) Place the male sign on one of the doors and the female sign on the other door.
 * 3) Analyze which gender conforms more.


 * Possible Flaws **
 * 1) Not the same amount of each gender will go through the doors.
 * 2) People in groups of couples may go through together.
 * 3) People might not see the signs


 * Materials Needed: **
 * 1) Easy to read male/female signs to post on doors
 * 2) Video camera

**Results** **Gender Conformity Essay** [|Citation For Essay]

Conclusion: [|charts.bmp]     __Literature__

** Boy-Girl Experiment **

At Lawndale Elementary School in Tupelo, a boy-girl experiment was conducted to see the different behaviors of boy and girl students in classrooms. This experiment allowed the teachers and the observers to advantages and disadvantages of separating the two sexes. The test was conducted for Tim Carroll’s all-boys third-grade class and Amanda Ball’s third-grade all-girls class to see the distinction. Tim Carroll’s all-boys third-grade class was allowed to move freely around the classroom, which the all-girls classroom was very calm, quiet, and the students were listening to what the teacher was teaching. The principal of the Lawndale Elementary School noticed that the amount of tardies, absences, and disciplines has decreased. Not only discipline wise, but socially students have made closer bonds with each other, through the single gender classes. The atmosphere of the classrooms has gotten better and showed positive response from the teachers and the students. Teachers were able to focus on the studies and make if fun for the students by picking and planning according to the gender. As this test showed the different behaviors of the different genders, this coincides with my experiment about gender conformity, because the experiment showed the different behaviors of the different genders (boys doing pushups or running outside, while girls are making Christmas ornaments). As I do my experiment, I believe that the different characteristics of the genders will contribute to which door/way that they will choose to go in.

Article: [] **Tampa parents dispute scathing single-sex school study** In Tampa, Geralyn Leath experienced a school study of the different behaviors of each gender and how they study differently. She felt that she was more confident, focused, and less stressed, when she studied in the single gender classroom. However, the authors of the //Science// article mentions that the practice of the single gender school/classroom is harmful developmentally and that the separation might bring the gender stereotype back. They also mentioned that if they study separately from now, they will not be able to survive in the real world, or even in college, because the real world won’t have work spaces for each gender. The former president of American Psychological Association says that the single-sex schools are not academically beneficial and that there is no point of doing so to classrooms and schools.

I believe that this topic (the single-sex schools not working) goes well with my topic of gender conformity, because as one of the journalists mentioned that there are no jobs and things that are separated for each gender, expect for restrooms. In the real world (which we will conduct our research mostly on), people have to work together and have to force themselves to get along with each other, even though they do not want to. This study of schools might bring up flaws in my experiment, because people tend to not care about conformity as people get older. Article: []

**Rudy Florentino**  Article1: [|Sex Differences in Conformity]   Article 2: [|Gender Conformity]

**Elena Middleton**  Article 1: [|Gender Conformity in Action]   Article 2: [|Young Adults' Construction of Gender Conformity and Nonconformity]

**Sarah Harder**  Article 1: [|Identity Implications of Conformity]   Article 2: [|Sex Differences on a Measure of Conformity]