A Special Issue of the British Journal of Developmental Psychology, co-edited by Patrick Leman and Harriet Tenenbaum (Kingston University) appeared in May 2011. The issue features a range of papers examining how gender affects relationships in a developmental context, and how these influences also entail certain consequences for children.
There is a podcast to accompany the special issue, and a full list of paper, here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)2044-835X