Prenatal Stress and Gender Roles
A longitudinal study done on prenatal stress and gender roles showed that prenatal stress only plays a small part in the gender roles the offspring takes on and mentions it has more to do with older siblings, maternal use of alcohol and/or tobacco, maternal education, and the observance or teaching of “traditional sex roles” from the parents.
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—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)
“But there, where I have garnered up my heart,
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The fountain from the which my current runs
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Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads
To knot and gender in!”
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