Despite great stress being laid on the significance of children nourishment regarding the concept of gender, little research is being conducted to create toys that could help children learn it effectively.
Vanessa Barford author of the article entitled, “Do Children’s Toys change their Career Choices?” stated in her article,” gender-specific toys risked branch girls off scholarship and maths.their daughters Lego to get them meddlesome in engineering”. It clearly marks that there is a critical issue when it comes to playing with the toys that are contributing in thinking i.e. gender biased roles. Similarly, Roland Barthes in his essay entitled, “Toys” explained by quoting, “The fact that French toys literally prefigure the world by constituting for him, even before he can think about it, the alibi of a Nature which has at all times created soldiers, postmen and Vespas”. This clearly makes one understand that toys have rather made gender distinction in the context of role they have to play within the society.
As per statistical standing, Barthes has clearly mentioned statistical information that tells about the role that has been backed up by stereotypes. For instance, 78% of the secretarial jobs are for females while the jobs concerning trade remains heavily for males within the society.
Finally, Grennan in his research provided statistics that claimed that children are 60% taught by their school teachers while the 40% are nourished by parents. Both the different institutions become critical in informing children about the fact that gender difference must not go beyond the limitation of discrimination.
Works Cited
Barfordm, Vanessa. "Do children’s toys change their career choices?" BBC News 27 January 2014: Online.
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies by Roland Barthes. New York: Hill and Wang, 1984. Print.
Clark, Beverly Lyon and Margaret R. Higonnet. Girls, Boys, Books, Toys: Gender in Children's Literature and Culture. New York: JHU Press, 2000. Print.
Grennan, C. Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal. New York: HarperCollins, 2011. Print.
