Marketing 'girls' toys vs. 'boys' toys confers sexist gender roles to young children
It's not just the toy aisles that teach children about gender stereotypes
Girl and boy toys: Childhood preferences for gendered toys are not innate.
Marketing 'girls' toys vs. 'boys' toys confers sexist gender roles to young children
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They enhance masculine stereotypes of dominance, power and autonomy, and feminine stereotypes of subservience, passivity and dependence.
And there is indeed some evidence that boys and girls come into the world with different preferences and interests.
For instance, newborn girls preferred to look at a face and newborn boys preferred to look at a mobile only shows average differences in looking time that are less than 10%.
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