Do Toys Emphasize Gender Roles?

When girls are young, they get toys that are influenced by family activities that cause their traditional sex role. This limitation of available toys may adversely affect children, especially young girls. Some girls have gender-specific toys such as toys and kitchen utensils, and it is possible to implement long-standing ideas based on the role of women in society. These traditional gender roles are given to girls through "gender friendly" toys that can give way to restrict the role of women in modern society.

To explore the role of gender, we set up a series of four areas that focus on gender performance: schools, toys, clothing / beauty, and sports. The series is ordered by female toys, male toys, female scholars / schools, male scholars / schools, women's sports, men's sports, women's clothing / beauty, and men's clothing / beauty. At the moment, gender disagreement and transgender concept are not included. We have received some personal views on this topic and we are waiting for the letter from you.

Gender has always played a role in the world of toys. To my surprise, in the previous generation, the differentiation and stereotypes of sex by toy grew to an unprecedented level. In the past 50 years, we made major progress in gender equality, but the world of toys looks like 1952 year over 2012. When examining the role of sex in the 20th century Sears catalog toy advertisement, in 1975 there were hardly any toys sold clearly by gender, and nearly 70% of the toys had no gender markers. In the 1970s, advertisements of toys often challenged gender stereotypes by showing that girls cook in the kitchen or cook a captain of an aircraft.

In the past, toys prepared children for future roles such as engineering and housework. For this reason, the toys of the 1950s and 1960s were gender-specific. Since the work of male and female workers began to appear, sexual toys have been rejected by about 2% of adult toys until the rise of television has increased advertisement again. Well, here we are more genderified than ever. As the interest is very different, this quickly detaches the boy from the girl. This is an impediment to cooperation, which will hinder something including cooperation. Teamwork is most effective to reduce any discrimination, so this will only make it more difficult to fight for equality.