Indian parents shouldn’t encourage their children to play with these four regressive toys.

The UN Women’s Unstereotype Alliance recently called for removing stereotyping in advertisements. They released a short video which centres around the premise that “the problem is not seeing the problem”. "The problem is not seeing the problem" – Unstereotype Alliance – https://t.co/UiORKggGlq — AlasdairGraham (@Alasdair1Graham) July 11, 2018 Stereotyping plagues our perception of ethnicity, religion, […]

The new Barbie on the block is a lab-coat-and-glasses-wearing robotics engineer. This Mattel Inc. initiative comes with a humanoid robot and a laptop. As per a Bloomberg report, Mattel’s Senior Vice President, Lisa McKnight joined 40 executives onstage at the Makers women’s diversity conference in February this year, to make a range of commitments toward improving women’s […]

Universally, and particularly in India we have all been raised and continue to raise our young in a highly gendered environment. Blue is for boys and Pink is for girls is an ideology that gets entrenched in children’s minds from the time they are able to differentiate colours. The gender socialization has proven to be […]

Mark Hamill reached out to a seven-year-old girl via Twitter, who was scared that she would be laughed at for wearing a Star Wars t-shirt. Her mother posted about the dilemma of her daughter on Thursday, and numerous people reached out to encourage her, along with Luke Skywalker himself. Star Wars is not “Boy Stuff” […]