Family and Consumer Science
Introduction Gender labelling of toys means identifying particular types of toys as suitable for a sex of children. Gender labelling thus ensures that children are basically being taught to purchase gender and colour specific toys. Society type casts boys and girls from the point they are born into gender roles and toys have a major role to play in the development of gender roles early among children. Boys are taught that they need to be superheroes and girls are taught that have to become beautiful dolls. Toy stores are divided into sections for boys and girls with different colours ...