Sunday News Lancaster, PA, November 25th, 2007
In their pink-and-blue world, manufacturers strongly aim toys and ads at one or the other, but rarely push toys as gender-neutral.
Sherry Rose was at the Lancaster Toys "R" Us one evening last week, pushing a shopping cart that contained an orange toy digger, a small red car, a pink baby-doll carrier and a Fisher-Price medical kit with a bright pink doctor's bag.
Rose said she would have preferred a medical kit with a gender- neutral color scheme, but she couldn't find one. She said she also has searched - in vain - for a bicycle with training wheels that wasn't explicitly designed for eithe...
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