{"id":2089,"date":"2016-12-14T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2016-12-14T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:24:06","slug":"dont-buy-pink-toys-for-girls-parents-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2016\/12\/14\/dont-buy-pink-toys-for-girls-parents-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t buy pink toys for girls, parents told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/12\/92889977_makeupthinkst.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2091\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/12\/92889977_makeupthinkst.jpg\" alt=\"_92889977_makeupthinkst\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/12\/92889977_makeupthinkst.jpg 660w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/12\/92889977_makeupthinkst-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Parents are being warned against buying pink, gender-stereotyped toys this Christmas, so as not to deter girls from getting into science.<\/p>\n<p>The Institution of Engineering and Technology claims such stereotypes could be putting girls off engineering and technology.<\/p>\n<p>Its analysis of top retailers and search engine results found 89% of toys aimed at girls were pink.<\/p>\n<p>Only 11% of girls&#8217; toys focused on science, technology or engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, nearly a third (31%) of toys aimed at boys had a such a focus. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-38250674\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents are being warned against buying pink, gender-stereotyped toys this Christmas, so as not to deter girls from getting into science. The Institution of Engineering and Technology claims such stereotypes could be putting girls off &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}