Gender Free In Fairytales Summary

In her article “should the world of toys be gender- free?” Peggy Orenstein addressees the topic of whether or not toys should be separated by gender. Orenstein asks, “Should gender be systematically expunged from playthings?” This is in indeed a multibillion question. Parents, teachers and specially the toy industry would certainly love to have a not refutable answer to it. In reality, opinion are really divided. On the one hand, numerous people would quickly agree that society is influencing children to play with different toys according to gender. On the other side, there are those of us who believe that children are born with an innate nature to gravitate towards toys with specific characteristics. Orenstein reports, the Lego company conducted a
In Orenstein’s words, “While as toddlers they interact similarly with the company’s Duplo blocks, by preschool girls prefer playthings that are pretty, exude “harmony” and allow them to tell a story. They may enjoy building, but they favor role play. So it’s bye-bye Bionicles, hello princesses. In order to be gender-fair, today’s executives insist, they have to be gender-specific.” Particularly, I sympathize with this claim. As a former kindergarten teacher I would agree that when I worked with both genders I did notice differences in behaviors, learning and play. For instance, I realized that during my class, boys tended to rough house more than girls, and girls had a tendency to play pretend games. Off course, by no means is this a general rule. All children behave differently. There are boys who are more nurturing and caring than girls, and also girls who are tougher than boys and vice versa. But in general, it cannot be denied that boys tend to like toys than engage them more in mechanical and physical activities while girls prefer symmetry and role playing, etc. In addition there are several researches done about human behaviors to support my