These schemas form a gender script that children learn to follow in order to fit into societal norms. ... Chodorow explained in her book "The Reproduction of Mothering," that a child's sense of identity begins with their mothers as they are their primary caregivers and they are completely dependant on their mother for survival. ... Mothers have an already 'internalised sense of gender,' thus; subconsciously mothers push their sons away in ways they wouldn't their daughters. ... With mothers being so crucial to the development of children, males are still encourag...

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