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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm female and all of my friends wanted girls. People love buying clothes and doing girly things with their daughters. I have one of each. Nearly everyone was more excited about my daughter except my inlaws. My inlaws wanted a grandson more.

I love both of my kids equally, but enjoyed everything about having a baby girl more. The external stuff like bows, dresses, decorating her room and she looks like me. I love both kids equally though. I don't enjoy playing trucks or trains the way I love playing dolls with my daughter. And I'm sure some of you have boys that like dolls, but that wasn't my kids. It was weird how my son gravitated to the trucks. Both went to a nearly all girl inhome daycare too. [/quote]

[b]Basically, you reinforced so-called gender norms, and we wonder why more women don't go into STEM.[/b]  #minime #boymom[/quote]

Gender norms exist for a reason. [/quote]

1st pp here. I'm an engineer with a masters degree. What's wrong with bows and dresses? Feminine things are not less than male things, nor do they have anything to do with intelligence or STEM. Just because my daughter likes baby dolls doesn't mean she's destined for the typical female jobs and my son will be a scientist because he likes trains. My son hasn't even been around little boys (he's the only boy in daycare) and he just love everything trucks, trains and balls. It boggles my mind. I haven't reinforced anything. I have a playroom filled with trains, trucks, dolls, kitchens, puzzles and books. [/quote]

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