ABSTRACT
Social scientists from many fields generally describe women as being more relational than men. That men may also be relational is rarely discussed. Yet, research on children’s same-gender friendships suggests that both girls and boys form important relationships. Furthermore, the types of relationships formed by boys and girls in childhood are believed to endure into adulthood. This chapter was designed, therefore, to challenge conceptions of gender differences as differing in degree of relationality and propose instead an analysis that examines the differences in content of the relationships formed by females and males.
