gender stereotyping?

Marc said yesterday that he was afraid Simon had already picked up social gender stereotyping, as he always asks Marc to draw tractors and then to draw men driving them. I said, "Oh, that's interesting because this morning when he asked me to draw a tractor I deliberately drew a woman driving it!"

Then today, I overheard Simon playing with one of his toy tractors. He was saying, "Monsieur drive it ... actually, lady drive it!" Obviously my attempt to balance things was having its effect!