Women today may feel they have come a long way since the inequality of the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies. But the shelves of many toy shops paint a very different story. Where once toys may have been ...

It’s enough that girls must have pink clothing, pink bedrooms, and glittery pink cell phones. It’s enough that girls are taught to recite “pink” as their favorite color. It’s enough that Barbie’s ...

Nestled in the aisle of pink sparkles dedicated to girls in most toy stores, this seasons’ shoppers will find a small collection of engineering toys called GoldieBlox packaged in sequin-free yellow.

Toy manufacturers were today accused of ‘aggressive gender segregation’ by dictating pink for girls and blue for boys. It is now almost impossible to buy toys for girls which are not plastered with ...

A letter written by Vivian Lord drew a flurry of news media attention and prompted one toymaker to develop, for the first time, a pack of the classic toy soldiers designed to be women. Credit...Jeff ...

Feel free to accuse me of intellectual snobbery but what exactly is between the ears of mothers festooning their daughters in swathes of pink? “Oh, but she likes it!” they trill, “I can’t get her in ...

A 6-year-old Arkansas girl started a letter campaign to fix what she saw as a definite wrong. "My name is Vivian. I am six years old. Why do you not make girl army men?" she wrote to toy companies.

At many toy stores there is an aisle filled with a spectrum of pinks, purples, and pastels. The aisle, known colloquially as the “pink aisle,” contains toys like dolls, princess costumes, and art sets ...

My brother got a remote-controlled race car for his 4th birthday. Me, being the jealous big sister, begged and pleaded to play with the car at every opportunity. I should not have been shocked to get ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — New York is now one of the latest states to ban a "pink tax." It's an extra fee companies tack onto certain items for women. Under this new law, businesses won't be able to keep ...