RE-RELEASE: Parenting beyond pink and blue with Dr. Christia Brown
Today I join forces with Malaika Dower of the\xa0How to Get Away with Parenting\xa0podcast to interview Dr.\xa0Christia\xa0Brown, who\xa0is a Professor of Developmental and Social Psychology at the University of Kentucky, where she studies the development of gender identity and children\u2019s experience of gender discrimination.\xa0\n\nDr. Brown\u2019s book,\xa0Parenting Beyond Pink and Blue\xa0(Affiliate link), helps parents to really understand the scientific research around gender differences in children, which is a harder task than with some other topics because there\u2019s just a lot of\xa0bad research\xa0out there on this one. \xa0I ask about theories of gender development while Malaika keeps us grounded with questions about how this stuff works in the real world, and we both resolve to shift our behavior toward our daughters just a little bit.\xa0\n\nRelated Episodes\xa0\n\nInterview with Yarrow Dunham on how social groups form\xa0\n\nInterview with Kang Lee on children\u2019s lying (yep \u2013 your kid does it too!)\xa0\n\n\xa0\xa0\n\nReferences\xa0\n\nBrown, C.S. (2014).\xa0Parenting beyond pink and blue. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press. (Affiliate link)\xa0\n\n
\n\nTaylor, M.G., Rhodes, M., & Gelman, S.A. (2009). Boys will be boys and cows will be cows: Children\u2019s essentialist reasoning about gender categories and animal species. Child Development 80(2), 461-481. DOI:\xa010.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01272.x\xa0