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 ...

McKenna Pope’s 4-year-old brother wanted an Easy-Bake oven for months and she was more than happy to get it for him. She wants him to know it’s OK for boys to enjoy baking cookies. But she’s worried ...

Chi Onwurah says encouraging young girls to play with kitchens 'limits' their imaginations A MUST-HAVE Barbie toy looks set to become a best-seller this Christmas. The Ultimate Kitchen Playset ...

Rows upon rows of pink musical instruments, dressing-up outfits, and pretend kitchens are encouraging an "obsession with body image, which starts younger and younger" and makes girls think "beauty is ...

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 ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. During her almost two-decade career in toy shops, Flick Davies has encountered scores of dads who won’t let their sons play with dolls ...

Walk into most any toy store in France, and the colours will hit you: on one side pink boxes of dolls, on the other, blue boxes of cars and construction kits. In Strasbourg, one store is trying to ...