In light of some past articles on diversity, SoylentNews: "How to Get Girls Into Coding" and SoylentNews: "Google to Release Diversity Data About its Workforce" This CNN article caught my attention.
Princess Free Zone offers empowering T-shirts with images such as dinosaurs, skateboards and soccer balls. "Kids should not have to be brave to wear the things they like," says founder Michele Yulo.
[...] "Girl clothes without the girly" is the mantra behind Girls Will Be, which includes longer shorts and T-shirts (no pink ones!) with images that seek to break gender stereotypes.
[...] The company buddingSTEM offers a line of girls' clothes celebrating girls' interests in science, engineering, technology and math.
Please, browse the photos. They are full of lovely little girls, minus what I call the "silly frilly" stuff. You might even click some links, and find something fitting for the young lady in your life!
Some might complain that it's a very small start - but the longest journey begins with a single step. Each of these startups seems to be doing pretty much what I've called for - giving the girls what THEY want, rather then telling them what they should want.
One of my favorite T-shirts, seen on girls young and mature, http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=92703208
(Score: 1) by LowSpeedHighDrag on Sunday August 30 2015, @01:11PM
Boys wear pink too. Either for breast cancer awareness or when dad does the laundry and that one red sock sneaks into a load of whites.
While I like the overall idea here, a lot (not all) of clothing really doesn't need to be gender specific. A basic T-shirt works just fine for girls or boys. How about a store that has a large 'neutral' clothing section with specific areas for more specialized stuff rather than the current "you must have (or lack) this chromosome to shop in this section"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @05:43AM
> Boys wear pink too.
In fact, until recently pink was 'for' boys and blue was for girls. [smithsonianmag.com] And both genders worse dresses until age 5-6.