Norms about gender-appropriate behavior are changing.    From Wordnik.com.  [BJ Gallagher: Sexual Harassment: How to Protect Yourself and Your Organization] Reference

Nor do I. Kids have better things to worry about than gender-appropriate clothing choices.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm Comfortable With This... Really!] Reference

"What we have now are less rigid definitions of what's gender-appropriate behaviour," Newman says.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is a Man?] Reference

Getting the greeting to be gender-appropriate is a nice show of respect, but the name thing isn't optional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Be a Bad Pitcher! - Anil Dash] Reference

And the more one deviates from being “straight-looking” and “gender-appropriate,” the worse it often gets.    From Wordnik.com.  [For The Straight Folks Who Don’t Mind Gays But Wish They Weren’t So Blatant] Reference

In the past, doctors often advised parents to direct their kids into more gender-appropriate clothing and behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [(Rethinking) Gender] Reference

Hannah was setting out for a day of invigorating manual labor, leaving me indoors to perform more gender-appropriate tasks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incubus]

This is New England, where people are dour and hardworking, and where people race the "cyclo-cross" in gender-appropriate clothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-09-01] Reference

The assumption of female gender-appropriate physical exercise meant the emphasis was on forms of health-building sports rather than competition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sports in the United States.] Reference

I suspect his intention was to steer my new hobby away from creme brulee and polenta and toward the more gender-appropriate piles of ground meat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stefan Beck: What Deaner Was Talkin' About: Sausage King, R.I.P.] Reference

It's the look of usually unearned privilege delighting in the chance to grind your nuts (or other gender-appropriate sensitive bits) just for the fun of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Davis Sweet: The Asshole Factor (Not About O'Reilly, Necessarily)] Reference

Many of us (certainly those in the U.S.) were raised in a patriarchal culture, so both men and women live up to some level of gender-appropriate role expectations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrea Learned: Who's to Fault for Gender Stereotypes?] Reference

Interestingly, it didn't seem to present any problem at all for the children, although children can go through phases of being very prescriptive about gender-appropriate behaviour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are transgendered human? Is intersex a crime? And where is feminism?] Reference

You should welcome their departure and, if you are heterosexual, take it as an opportunity to withdraw into your own gender-appropriate Tupperware compartment - spaghetti or waffle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbara Ehrenreich: Opportunities in Abstinence Training] Reference

Every night across the United States, hundreds -- if not thousands -- of patients endure extra hours, and even days, waiting in crowded emergency rooms because the hospital beds available are not "gender-appropriate.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacob M. Appel: Are We Ready for Coed Hospital Rooms?] Reference

If they identify themselves with their mother as they should identify with the same-gender parent, and their mother does the majority of the household duties, then little girls view these things as gender-appropriate toys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gender Part 2: Sugar & Spice] Reference

Question about dressing in a gender-appropriate manner: if their men want to dress in a masculine manner, and they decide to pick the era circa late 18th-century England, does that mean the dudes get to prance around in high heels, satin breeches, lace shirts and pancake make-up?.    From Wordnik.com.  [So you want to be a Prairie Muffin . . .] Reference

So there is a question about whether gender-appropriate behavior might be affected.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

We recommend showing up in embarrassingly gender-appropriate attire to get in the spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Londonist] Reference

Beard said when planning for grandkids to visit, grandparents should consider age - and gender-appropriate activities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roanoke Times: Home page] Reference

In the study, researchers found no association between parents 'reported views on gender-appropriate toys for children, or parental roles at home, and the toys children chose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

All employees are trained on age - and gender-appropriate toys, and know to always have something in the back of their minds when customers ask for recommendations-which they do often.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Teenage daughter Betty found happiness when she agreed to stop competing with a male student for a junior executive job at the local department store and settled for the more gender-appropriate task of modeling bridal dresses.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

The ladies -- including Pineapple Poll (as in Polly) herself, Lauren Strongin -- go so far as to disguise themselves in sailor scrubs to be closer to him, a diversionary bit of cross-dressing that gives way eventually to gender-appropriate exuberance all around.    From Wordnik.com.  [Local News from Sarasota Herald-Tribune] Reference

Much as I’ve had to explain it to a stack of therapists, I don’t think there are “gender-appropriate” behaviors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Responding To The Feminist Anti-Transsexual Arguments] Reference

38 The author asserted that this lack of gender-appropriate training meant that women were invading the male sphere of work.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930] Reference

It’s probably also the result of a more diverse conception of who books should be by and about; it wasn’t all that long ago when a generically man and woman would automatically have been assumed to be white, heterosexual, and sporting the most popular gender-appropriate hairstyle of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Constructing effective interview scenes, part II: should the fine Italian hand of the creator be THAT apparent?] Reference

I think I deserve a gender-appropriate joke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humour] Reference