How do sexism and gender socialization start? Well, let’s look at children’s toy and childhood in general. Gender socialization is the learned behavior and attitudes considered appropriate for a given sex. Toys teach us many things. It teaches us how: to play, to share, and how we’re supposed to act. So you can’t help but see the in the intersectionality between children’s toy, gender socialization and women being under represented. But there can negative backlash on how toys tell us how we’re supposed to act or be. Take a look at the giant toy seller’s sell’s ad’s boys get “building sets” and “learning”, while girls get “pretend play” and “beauty, bath and accessories.”

The essence of nearly every Disney film is that a woman needs saving from a troubled life preferably by a man from a superior social or economic class. Barbie is an unrealistic, unhealthy, insulting representation of the female appearance and what’. And even Lego’s default characters are male; its scientists are men, its lady scientists are no longer available, while a Lego line geared toward girls leans heavily on pet care and shopping malls.

So if you wonder why women are still surprisingly underrepresented in the U.S. Congress, on the boards of Fortune 500 companies, in science, math, engineering and technology in any area that could remotely be identified as “the upper echelons of power” in 2018. Well, it starts in the toy aisle.

Apparently, the creators of this toy think girls are better suited to sticking with hair and nails, while the boys should be left to the tougher job of figuring out the human body.

There’s nothing wrong with a girl who likes to do her nails or style her hair, but toys like this seem to be pushing girls toward those types of interests. Women and men can be in the same careers. I personally know more male hairstylists and most of the doctors I’ve had wereIf your little girl has aspirations of being a doctor, we say let your her perform as many check-ups as she wants.