Gender Stereotypes

She simply liked pink, or at least more than she liked blue. The woman stated that “Most of my things came from ‘twin’ packages [...] one pink, one blue”. Comparing this to my own experience, my favorite color is neither pink or blue; it’s purple. In my opinion, the toy market has grown to accept the entire light spectrum for their products, regardless of the target gender. When asked about favorite color, a white woman of age 73 replied “Blue”. This parallels to Orenstein’s claim that “when nursery colors were introduced, pink was actually considered the more masculine hue, [...]. Blue, with it’s intimations of the Virgin Mary, [...], symbolized femininity” (p. 35). This information was collected from a 1930’s poll where a “solid” quarter of adults still believed in this particular color association. As a 73 women now was born in 1942, the information

How adolescence behaved during the 1920’s altered the future generations to come in many different ways. One of these ways includes how they dressed themselves. Before the 1920’s girls wore dresses normally past their knees, but during this era they began to wear shorter clothing items above their knees. Very similar nowadays, girls are wearing

Most People have Heard comments of how the colored pink is for girls and blue is for boys. A large percentage of society is carried away by that and buy clothes or decorations according to those colors. Discrimination is based largely on stereotypes that have been generated around the idea of "what is the correct way in which a man or woman should act in society", and their roles at work or in their family. This set of preconceived ideas that we use to analyze and interact with other men and women, are gender stereotypes. The article “When Gender Norms Didn't Work for My Kid” written by Erika Kleinman gives us an insight about her personal experience with both of her daughters and how she managed not to get carried away by what society believes is the right appearance for a girl.

Children’s clothes are immediately gendered from the pink or blue blanket you get at the hospital all the way to Babies “R” Us. A tradition that once seemed cute, Sally and Penelope, now claim is an unconscious ploy to know the sex without having to ask. They clearly point out the black and white photo of the world—the girl and boy, if you will—then color their film with proof and statistics. For example, the experiment done by Condry and Condry in 1976 tested how adults reacted differently to a babies cry solely based on what gender they believed the baby to be. According to another study gender does not determine how much a baby cries (Maccoby and Jaclyn 1994).

In paragraph 1 it says, “Although many toy companies are developing toys that ignore gender stereotypes most are still thinking along the pink and blue lines. Why does the color matter?

     Even before the children are born, parents begin choosing clothing and decorations by color based on the sex of the baby. The stereotype of pink, pastels, yellow and white for girls and bright or dark colors like green, blue and red for boys has long been a part of culture. How many times have you heard kids argue over toys because girls don’t want that icky boy color or the boys don’t want the gross girl color? This

In the article " Rethinking Women's Biology" the author position appeared to be that society dictates what a woman means and teaches it from childhood. The old concept of blue for a boy and pink for a girl starts out from birth and is

In the nineteenth century children were very uniquely dressed. It started out during this time period that they were dressed in very plain fabrics, like muslins, but as time progressed they began to use darker and heavier fabrics, like wool, to create children’s clothing. During this time period infants were overdressed in long dresses that were thick. Male and female infants were dressed the same and they wore those dresses year round no matter what the weather was like. Young girls had to wear dresses with rather large skirts most of them went to at least their ankles or even to the floor entirely. Young boys that were five years of age and younger had to wear skirts, but once they were older than five years

There’s always talk that “ pink is for girls” and “ blue is for boys”. But is that how it really was? “Baby books, new baby announcements and cards, gift lists and newspaper articles from the early 1900s indicate that pink was just as likely to be associated with boy babies as with girl babies”(Wolchover). She shows that before they associated pink more with males than females. So you see pink isn't always a female color. If I could speak when I was a baby I would love a blue hat or blanket. Then a pink one. Im sure the majority of females prefer the color blue then pink. In all honesty. She says “The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy; while blue, which is more delicate and dainty is prettier for the girl."(Wolchover) I don’t understand how either way women

Even from birth gender is forced on children, clothes for baby boys are nearly always in lighter shades of blue whilst girls’ clothing is usually

Presented at birth men are given the color blue and women are given the color pink. Although when both men and women are older they still don’t typically stay wearing those same colors. By then they have expanded their typical gender norms that were presented to them at birth causing them to adapt themselves to many new colors.

Gender identity, color association, and toy advertisement are object that in society has changed the perceptive of a culture's expectations. In the early eighteen century, society views towards the children association with gender were not existent. Although, in the 1920s, the classification of sex identity started to emerge because of social changes occurring in the labor force. As a result, gender colors such as, pink and blue rose to promote gender individualization, and maintain social norms. Consequently, the usage of gender colors created a social stereotype of gender expectations. The media then used gender associations to portray social expectations on children’s toys. As a result, of toy generalization, children grow up to develop

When you think what colors things a person gets for their child.You usually is think what is the gender that after you make an assertion for the color as of pink for a girl and blue for a boy. Then when a child grows in an environment that only except one thing for everything.Though the parents or parent doesn't say that they only need one ideal.The parents don’t even know that they doing that.Then in toys parents only want to buy boyish stuff for boys than girly stuff for girls.Which in some cases girls want to play with boy things like the transformer toys.A lot of people were playing with those toys in the female gender.”Until the 1960s, girls toys which were focused on homemaking and boy’s on work in the industrial

Children learn as early as age two what it means to be a “boy” or a “girl” (Aina & Cameron). This is described as gender identity, a person’s sense of self as male or female. Gender stereotyping emerges hand in hand with the development of gender identity in Early Childhood (Halim). Gender roles are society’s expectations of the proper behavior, attitudes and activities of males and females. When babies are born they are either put in pink or blue, as they grow up they still maintain the same “gender” colors. As young children start to socialize, they are playing with either “girl” toys or “boy” toys. When they get older they

Paoletti titled, Pink and Blue: Telling the Girls from the Boys in America and it mentioned something interesting for me. In the introduction of the book it states that “The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl.” A total shift of the scenario, pink versus blue. But, according to Paoletti this controversial topic of deciding what color should represent a certain sex did not settle in the general rule. In the 1940s, according to Paoletti manufacturers settled on pink for girls and blue for boys, so Baby Boomers were raised with wearing the two colors and even if this rule was not written, by the age of three a baby knew this unwritten rule and followed the norm. For me that explained my mom’s preference towards pink or reddish colors, she is a Baby Boomer and she was taught to follow these