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Found this little gem in "The Politics of Experience" by R.D Laing. p60.

"In a London class, average age ten, the girls were given a competition.
They had to bake cakes and the boys were to judge them.  One girl won.

Then her `friend` let out that she had bought her cake instead of baking it
herself.  She was disgraced in front of the whole class.

Comments:

1.  The school is here inducting children into sex-linked roles of a very
specific kind.
2.  Personally, I find it obscene that girls should be taught that their
status depends on the taste they can produce in boys' mouths.
3.  Ethical values are brought into play in a situation that is at best a
bad joke.  If one is coerced into such game-playing by adults, the best a
child can do is to play the system without getting caught.  I most admire
the girl who won, and hope she will choose her `friends` more carefully in
future."