You are observing children on an elementary school playground and find some girls playing sports with boys but almost no boys playing jump rope with girls. Why?

Children are mocked for crossing gender lines, and boys are mocked more than girls.

Explanation:

Children start to grasp gender roles as soon as they reach the age of four. Gender roles are the stereotypes prevalent in society which expects a particular set of behavior on the basis of male and female. gender identity becomes firm in some children which govern their behavior with their friends and forms relationships. Media. family and immediate environment create the gender identity in children. And in a patriarchal society, the role of male is always dominant than females and boys were expected to stand their ground firm.