Go to a department or clothing store in person or to an online retailer and exam

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Go to a department or clothing store in person or to an online retailer and examine the children's and teen's clothing sections. Analyze the messages related to gender by answering the following questions. Be sure to fully explain and support your answers I. Where did you observe? Include in your answer the date, time, place, description, and other general details for your observation 2. What differences do you see between the boys and girls' sections? For instance you may want to discuss what differences you see in terms of the space itself, how the clothing looks and is made to be wor n, and the imagery and text on the clothing. 3. What messages about gender are being sent to boys? To girls? Be sure to examine what these differences say about being a girl or boy. For instance, if the girls' section contains a lot of pink and light colored clothing, don't just say the message sent is that girls like pink...dig deeper! 4. Are the differences in messaging based on sex differences or gender differences between boys and girls? How so? 5. Do these messages about gender and the difference between the messages to boys and girls matter? What effect might they have on children's gender socialization and society more widely?

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1- Visited Online retailer(amazon.com , Fill the date , Time accordingly)

It is an online retailer which provides availability of online clothing as a separate category in their operational website. Website is extensively used and overall collection of clothing is extensively big. This type of availability of clothing directly increases our interest in the specific website.

2 - Boys section was initiated with the jeans as well as availability of other common items which were relatively priced at lower scale. Where girls action was highly customised and colour theme used in the girl section was more bright than the boys section and availability of the colours was also very Chunky as compared to the boys section in the website.
Where availability of space and product sorting facility is relatively Limited in boys section, availability of subcategories and ability to sort the products according to different type of specifications was widely available in construction.
Simple colours such as black and white were mostly used in boys section for depicting the products, girl section used extensively wide range of colours for depiction of the products as well as different brands.
Band selection was relatively very less at boys section as compared to the girls action as availability of brand was relatively 50% less than girls brands.

3- Sturdy and simple clothing is suitable for boys wear delicate and no did year closing is suitable for girls was the main message I recorded from the specific website.
Depicting Boys As tough and strength full and depicting girls as soft and graceful was the main motive behind creation of such a specific visuals and providing visual cues in the website.
Theme of the website was totally changed in both of the sections as men section was relatively created with less funky colours which have White and Black in most of the combination representingstrong and study Lifestyle where availability of pink and other similar colours such as Turquoise blue was the main colour set used in girls segment creating a message about their ever changing nature as well as propensity of having vast number of choices.

4 - Be specific messages are based on gender differences rather than being based on sex difference. As availability of the clothing is directly dependent on body type and mentality the messages were designed to intimate the specific customer of requirement which is essential for a website to maintain better quality standards and operation due to availability of extensive number of visitors.

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Definitely messages generated about genders in boys and girls matter as availability of these a specific genders directly relate the website with their mindset. According to the availability of the specific information over the website, this would I directly Orient peoples identity over the colours being used in the website being treated as a standard of messaging for the specific colour. For an example blue colour is usually associated with boys and pink colour is associated with girls which is the fine example of colour based gender determination and using these colours to influence the specific gender in Operation.

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