How do I enter more than 1 character and still execute program step wise ?

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C

When I enter the code below and try to enter my name then rest of the codes executive themselves without allowing me to enter any data but when I enter a single character for name then I can input the data one by one. Why is that ?

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
	
	char name;
	int age;
        char gen;
	
	printf("What is your name ? \n");
	scanf(" %c", &name);
	
	printf("What is your age ? \n");
	scanf(" %i", &age);
	
	printf("What is your gender ? \n");
	scanf(" %c", &gen);
	
	printf("Thank you for the information! :)");
	return 0;
}

What I have tried:

I have tried using "char name[10];" thinking it might be the storage problem, I have also changed "10" to "1000" but it doesn't seem to work. Whenever I input more than 1 character, the program executes the rest of the code itself.