Gender stereotypes are mostly taken for granted at a young age: girls are told to play with dolls and boys are told to play with trucks. But as children grow up, they find themselves in a world where the reality of gender roles and stereotypes goes unrecognized and the illusion of gender neutrality is lauded. If gender roles are becoming more neutral, it would follow that stereotypes about gender roles are also becoming more permissive. However, in reality this is not true. Banerjee and Lintern (2000) examined the importance of children's preference for toys in private and public settings. Their findings indicate that younger children have more rigid ideas about what types of toys they should play with their gender and that children would present their toy preferences as more influenced by gender in public settings. Older children have been found to have more flexible ideas about how gender should influence their preference for toys and have shown a significantly lower rate of altering toy selection when in public or group settings (Banerjee & Lintern, 2000). These findings indicate that the social construction of gender is present from a young age, dictating what is appropriate behavior for boys and girls. Although children's gender stereotypes have loosened over time (Banerjee & Lintern, 2000), it cannot be said that as they age their perception of gender is free of stereotypes. Gender itself is a social construction that combines biological sex, culture, attachment experiences, and brain development (McKenzie, 2010). Going against gender roles can have relational and social consequences. McKenzie (2010) describes a case study of a woman, Gail, who was in a heterosexual marriage for almost 20 years before falling in love with a woman… Workplace illness: Exploring predictors of disclosure. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 25(3), 173-180.Shaffer, D. R., Pegalis, L. J., & Cornell, D. P. (1992). Gender and self-disclosure revisited: Personal and contextual variations in self-disclosure to same-sex acquaintances. Journal of Social Psychology, 132(3), 307-315. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5922.2009.01826.xThomas, M. D., Henley, T. B., Snell, C. M. (2006). A scientist's test of the draw: a different population and a somewhat different story. College Student Journal, 40(1), 140-148.Vinkenburg, Claartje J., van Engen, Marloes L., Eagly, Alice H., Johannesen-Schmidt, Mary C.(2011). An exploration of stereotypical beliefs about leadership styles: Transformational leadership is an avenue for women's advancement. The Leadership Quarterly, 22(1), 10-21. doi: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2010.12.003