The most important online Personality Quizzes I have ever taken!
and I'm not thrilled with the results. . .
but I will learn from them.
Project Implicit
I took the gender bias quiz first.
Every day, I am conscious about my thoughts regarding gender. I do not associate blue with boys and pink with girls, trucks with boys and dolls with girls. I am always encouraging my students to play with whatever they want to! I have had my boys say to me "only girls can wear dresses" to which I said "girls and boys can wear whatever they want! If a boy wants to wear a dress, so what??"
Unfortunately, the quiz results told me that somewhere, deep deep down in my subconscious, my brain still associates boys with science and girls with liberal arts.
Now, there is the chance that this is because I, personally, am a female who is not very talented in anything to do with math, science, or engineering, but I LOVE the arts and English. However, I would have hoped by now that just because the stereotype applies to me, does not mean I associate it with all males and females.
I know that society and the media have a lot to do with how I associate things in my subconscious mind. When someone has a baby, if it is a boy everything is blue. If it's a girl, everything is pink. But why?! I'm a girl and I love blue! I HATE pink!
Society advertises Barbies and makeup and pink sparkly things with female models or actors. Blocks, trucks, tools, etc. are modeled with boys. There are "girl" Legos and then regular Legos. Why can't all Legos just be for everyone??
Society needs to get their act together so that today's children grow up being able to take this quiz with the results that, even subconsciously, there are no gender biases.
I took the gender bias quiz first.
Every day, I am conscious about my thoughts regarding gender. I do not associate blue with boys and pink with girls, trucks with boys and dolls with girls. I am always encouraging my students to play with whatever they want to! I have had my boys say to me "only girls can wear dresses" to which I said "girls and boys can wear whatever they want! If a boy wants to wear a dress, so what??"
Unfortunately, the quiz results told me that somewhere, deep deep down in my subconscious, my brain still associates boys with science and girls with liberal arts.
Now, there is the chance that this is because I, personally, am a female who is not very talented in anything to do with math, science, or engineering, but I LOVE the arts and English. However, I would have hoped by now that just because the stereotype applies to me, does not mean I associate it with all males and females.
I know that society and the media have a lot to do with how I associate things in my subconscious mind. When someone has a baby, if it is a boy everything is blue. If it's a girl, everything is pink. But why?! I'm a girl and I love blue! I HATE pink!
Society advertises Barbies and makeup and pink sparkly things with female models or actors. Blocks, trucks, tools, etc. are modeled with boys. There are "girl" Legos and then regular Legos. Why can't all Legos just be for everyone??
Society needs to get their act together so that today's children grow up being able to take this quiz with the results that, even subconsciously, there are no gender biases.
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