Teaching little girls to lead

Disney’s retrograde princesses have seen some improvements in recent years, but they still send mixed messages about what female leadership looks like

Virginia García Beaudoux

By the age of two, most children use gender pronouns in their speech and proactively identify people as men and women. And by the time they turn seven, little boys and little girls have already learnt a lot about what is expected of them within our – binary – gender system.