Articles Tagged: gender stereotypes
Boys should be able to wear skirts to school, says children's adviser
Family campaigners have reacted angrily to a children's adviser's call for boys to be allowed to wear skirts to school.
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Hamleys remove 'sexist' girl and boy signs
Famous London toy shop, Hamleys has removed signs which categorise toys by gender.
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Chantelle Houghton wants a girl with hair extensions to take shopping, or a boy to be a 'bruiser'
Newly-pregnant Chantelle Houghton has said that if she has a little girl, the tot will most likely come out sporting blonde hair extensions!
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Achtung Baby: Not a real girl!
Boys are stupid.......were the first words out of Finje's mouth when she arrived home from kindergarten yesterday.
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Gender stereotypes: Does your child dress the part? BritMums discuss
Are you a pink for girls and blue for boys kind of parent? Or are you from the school of thought that it really doesn’t matter and if it’s clean, sort of fits and you can find it, they’ll wear it?
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School bans use of 'him' and 'her' to avoid gender stereotyping
A Swedish pre-school has banned the use of 'him' and 'her' to stop children being stereotyped by gender.
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Achtung Baby or He, she or it? The gender stereotype
Corbis There's been a lot of media interest in baby Storm recently, the child being raised in Toronto by parents who ...
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Four sons versus four daughters
When I spied a programme entitled Four Sons versus Four Daughters in the TV listings magazine, I immediately set the Sky+ box ...
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