Developmental Gender Differentiation: Pathways in Conforming and Nonconforming Outcomes.

The article examines the Development Pathways Models that characterize normative gender differentiation during childhood. It focuses on the attitudinal pathway model that describes the routes by which children's gender attitudes guide the selection and impact of gender-related experiences for the self. It is showed that the personal pathway model describes the ways in which children' own interests and skills may affect their gender-related attitudes about others.