Asking for an end to gender specific marketing doesn’t equal asking for gender neutrality. Asking for trucks to be called trucks, not boys’ toys, or for all colors to be open to everyone, is just asking for fairness. When I became pregnant in my late 30s and began to visit stores aimed at new parents, I […]
The message that we consistently send out is that in order to achieve any kind of significant career goals, girls need to adopt traits that are typically associated with masculinity. A few months ago, my 4-year-old son went to a classmate’s birthday. The party was superhero-themed and the loot bags were packed with cute little […]
Toy manufacturers and games developers are profiting from the creation of discriminatory imagined worlds where the segregation, objectification, and erasure of women is being mass produced for fun. In 2014, Hasbro, one of the world’s largest and most influential toy makers, was named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, recognized for going “beyond making […]
