摘要：The aim of this study was to determine the gender perceptions of 36-72 months old children attending preschool education related to professions. This research was a quantitative research design and modeled according to descriptive scanning method. In this study, the study group consists of a total of 200 children, 36-72 months old, who are studying in private and public pre-primary education classes in the Anatolian side of Istanbul. The determined schools were determined by an easily accessible sampling method, and the children selected from the schools were determined by random sampling method. In the research, the structured “Who Makes This Profession Form” developed by the researchers, 18 picture cards with the tools used by the people doing the professions and picture cards with only women, only men and both women and men pictures were used. In this study, each child was studied individually and the collected data were analyzed in SPSS 21.0 statistical program. According to the findings of the study, children mostly were choose as the male profession which repairers (87.5%), construction machinery users (83.0%) and the captain (76.5%). On the other hand, children mostly were choose as the female profession which Nurses (60.0%), tailors (53.0%) and teachers (47.5%). A significally relationship was found between the variables of age and the level of selection of some occupational groups (doctor, fireman, teacher, nurse, cook, tailor, announcer, singer and cashier). In addition, the presence of male teachers in the institutions where children are enrolled revealed that children were more egalitarian towards the professions.
