“The results of a survey conducted in the spring of 2021 on 410 primary school children highlighted the presence of significant gender stereotyping. This translates into the idea that male and female social gender roles exist, placing men in positions of strength and leadership and women in the domestic sphere, involved in caregiving activities. The belief in the existence of predetermined and rigid gender roles is therefore still strongly acquired from the first years of life through primary socialization and the internalization of interpretive categories that stereotype the social context. The inequalities of future society are thus still being reproduced predominantly within the family environment, where children acquire socially distorted ideas through imitation.
The results, achieved through a complex research methodology, suggest the need to continue monitoring the world of childhood and parenting periodically and from a quantitative perspective. The goal is to implement educational interventions as soon as possible that, at the very least, mitigate the social conditioning to which children are particularly exposed, also due to the vulnerability inherent in the cognitive plasticity that characterizes their age.”.