{"id":423134,"date":"2018-01-04T12:31:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T16:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f16e09d12219dd57405b6ef96491c25e"},"modified":"2018-01-04T12:31:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T16:31:51","slug":"pretty-in-pink-and-boisterous-in-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=423134","title":{"rendered":"Pretty in pink and boisterous in blue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two researchers from the University of Hong Kong suggest that toymakers and parents avoid gender-labelling toys, remove colour divides, and manufacture toys for both boys and girls in a wide range of colours. Sui Ping Yeung and Wang Ivy Wong&#8217;s study is published in Springer&#8217;s journal Sex Roles, and shows how easily preschoolers&#8217; ideas about what is appropriate for their gender is manipulated. Their study is also the first to show that a boy&#8217;s preference for blue and a girl&#8217;s liking of pink is not just a Western construct, but is also a phenomenon in urban Asian societies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two researchers from the University of Hong Kong suggest that toymakers and parents avoid gender-labelling toys, remove colour divides, and manufacture toys for both boys and girls in a wide range of colours. Sui Ping Yeung and Wang Ivy Wong&#8217;s study is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423135,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423134\/revisions\/423135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}