Q.Explain, with examples, how socialisation can be gendered.

Socialisation is gendered whenever norms and freedoms differ systematically by sex, taught through everyday repeated practice rather than any single explicit rule. …

Socialisation is gendered whenever the norms, freedoms and expectations taught to a child differ systematically depending on whether the child is a boy or a girl, and this happens through ordinary, repeated, everyday practice rather than through any single explicit rule. A clear general observation captures the pattern: boys tend to use public space, like the street, freely -- to loiter, play, or try out a bicycle -- while girls typically treat the street mainly as a route straight home from school, usually moving through it in groups rather than alone, in part because of a real, learned fear of harassment that boys are not socialised to carry in the same way.

The short story 'The Bell' offers several concrete examples of this within a single family. The story's young protagonist is made to sit through an elaborate, uncomfortable hair-oiling and hair-binding ritual that she is embarrassed for her school friends to see -- a grooming expectation placed on her, not on her male counterparts. She is escorted everywhere in her grandmother's temple town, even though she is used to walking to school unaccompanied back in the city, revealing a gendered restriction on independent movement. She is permitted only to watch, never to join, a football game taking place nearby, marking out which physical activities are considered appropriate for her to participate in versus merely observe. A further example from elsewhere in the chapter is the school 'hidden curriculum' example: some schools quietly expect girls, but rarely boys, to sweep the classroom, an unstated lesson about gendered division of labour delivered through routine rather than instruction. …