Parents who dress their daughters in pink are holding back the economy, says minister (UK)

Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 7:14PM GMT 05 Feb 2014 | Christopher Hope

[Olog-hai]

Parents who dress their daughters in pink and force them to play with dolls are holding back the economy, a Government minister has said.

Jenny Willott, the Consumer Affairs minister, said that women were being forced into professions that paid less well because of gender stereotyping when they were young children.

Girls were often guided into low paying occupations like nursing because of the types of toys they were given to play with. This led to an over-representation of women among nurses—and of men among engineers and physicists. …

[Windflier]

What was it that basketball coach said? I think it was Jimmie Valvano, don't give up, don't ever give up, until we assume room temperature. Then we fight in a different plane.

I love that! That's the sort of person who people will follow. Be nice if every conservative had that sort of resolve. I think enough do, that we'll lick these Commie bastards.

[Vanders9]

Its a relatively new phenomenae, this gender typing of colors. It dates from the mid 1920's - and originally it was pink for boys and blue for girls. Then all of a sudden, in the mid 1940's, probably at the instigation of some idiot fashion guru, the two swapped, and it became blue for boys and pink for girls. So just after the end of the war.

Nowadays blue is not neccesarily for boys, but pink remains very much for girls.