Gender Roles and The Adolescent

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This creates an environment that has led to what is known as the Gender Intensification Hypothesis (Hill & Lynch 1983). The idea is that various changes, chemical and otherwise, associated with puberty contribute to an increased concern about conformity to such gender stereotypes...
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The idea is that various changes, chemical and otherwise, associated with puberty contribute to an increased concern about conformity to such gender stereotypes. Because adolescents are still unclear on the meaning of gender and sexuality issues they are more likely to be very rigid in their stereotyping of gender behavior...
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