What Is the Root Cause of This?

Scientists look at way that parents interact with little boys versus little girls. People are much more likely to be firm and aggressive when they're disciplining a boy. Whereas with girls, parents aremuch more likely to give her something like a a coloring book,. They're much more likely, when she does anything good, to tell her that she is a beautiful little girl. In their eyes, this is just how you treat little girls. This is how girls behave in our culture, and this is how boys behave. But where did that come from? Who created this standard of how people are supposed to be behaving? And if samone's righte that this is some sort of organized operation to