Gender socialization of preschool children

Abstract

Gender-oriented pattern of the parent-child relations appears as a psychological condition, ensuring the functioning of the mechanisms of gender socialization in the family, ensuring the formation of gender orientation of a person especially in the early stages of development. Child's position as a representative of his/her gender determines the specificity of development of child's consciousness. In the context of the transformation of the society there is need for scientific understanding and consideration of the theory and practice of gender socialization process of preschool children in the conditions of contemporary family.