Earliest memory concerning your gender

A)   One interaction with your parents, the earliest you can remember, that communicated expectations for you gender.

       The earliest interaction that I can remember with my parents involving my gender was when I was about five years old.  I was playing with my cousin Leon, he is like a little brother to me and we loved to play together when we were little.  But sometimes he would play rough and hit me and make me cry.  I was a nice, shy, gentle, and sweet little girl so I never would hit him back.  Our parents however would step in and tell Leon that he's not allowed to "hit" anyone, but especially girls.
      They sat him down and tried to explain to him that boys don't treat girls like that.  They also said that girls and supposed to be princesses and boys need to treat them as such.  That is the first time I realized that there are different expectations of boys and girls.  It reminds me of the saying what are little boys and girls made of? Girls are supposed to be "sugar and spice and everything nice" and boys are "snakes and snails and puppy dog tails".


B)   The most recent interaction with someone who communicated expectations for your gender?

       The experience I had recently involving my gender was at my work actually.  I sell green tea hp at flat irons mall kiosk.  The way we make our money there is by pulling people over, giving them a sample, and try to get them to buy our product.  Most of the money i make is by commission, however I make minimum wage per hour as well as commission.
       The cooerperate office has asked my manager to tell her employees to start zeroing in on women.  Because apparently women are more likely to say yes to a question than men.  Because of this they are asking us to pull over more women and "pitch" to them, to see if it increases our sales.  I don't necessarily agree that women are more likely to say yes to a person than men.  From my experience of being a woman, I say no all the time when people try to sell me stuff.  And in fact I find myself selling to a lot more men than women at work.
        I feel that men are more likely to say yes to a woman, than a woman say yes to another woman.  Also, at my particular kiosk there are 9 women who work there and 1 man.  So for my kiosk, I doubt that our sales will go up from "pitching" to more women.  This is just my opinion and I have no study to back it up, but that is how I feel.