key differences are in what we value in men/women in general. Age not really relevant. Male characters have to build themselves to something great. Female characters have to discover how great they were all along. Switching genders on these archetypes doesn't seem to work.
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Dorothy, Alice etc are largely already in possessions of perspectives and/or qualities needed. The adventure centers around them giving their gifts to the fantasy land or making it whole in some way. The male heros often seem to need develop or discover their good qualities.
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girls get the more interesting, wondrous and absurd with exploration of psyche where the boys get more typical hokey nomad aggrandized camping trip scenarios to make them want to become soldiers
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What they wear. Mainly clothes and a lot of expectations from the reader.
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Yes, yes I do, very strong ones at that.
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Not really, but the women characters seem to have less agency, are led about a little more by the other characters.
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Ozma of Oz changed sex a few times.
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The heroines in most children’s lit are accompanied by older, wiser, men for the most part. For example, Alice needs help from the people living in the kingdom to understand the world, and Dorothy needs the three men she meets to help her through the forest.
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Charlie is able to get through the chocolate factory by being him. If anything, the adults around him hinder him (as seen when Grandpa encourages him to drink the fizzy drink). He’s the hero because he is so purely good that he can overcome the people who lead him astray.
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