Friday, January 11, 2013

Pink v blue - are children born with gender preferences?


Stores often have separate areas or even floors for girls' and boys' merchandise, which researchers say gives the impression that some toys are out of bounds. Photograph: Frank Baron
Photograph: Frank Baron
Hamleys has abandoned its toy shop 'gender apartheid', scrapping its separate floors for boys and girls and their respective blue and pink signs. Are colour and toy preference dictated by nature or nurture?Polly Curtis, with your help, finds out

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