Evaluating Gender-Stereotyping in Children's Cartoons and Television Programs Watch a few cartoons or live-action television programs for young children. Using examples from the cartoons or TV programs, describe how males and females were represented. Were any characters portrayed in genderstereotyped roles? Were males and females equally represented in exciting plot activities? Were the behaviors, attitudes, and characteristics of male and female characters strongly gender stereotyped? Are newer cartoons and programs less gender-stereotyped than those from your own childhood? How might these media depictions influence young children's gender typing? Explain