![]() ![]() ![]() The next day, when Josie was shown around the nursery she would be attending, a table covered in cars was described specifically as "the boys' corner". One of these boys then chose a flashing torch, in pink, for himself, to which the stallholder responded: "Shall I get you that in blue?" The boy, aged about five, readily agreed to the swap. On the first day, they went to a pantomime with a toy stall, where Josie's older male cousins directed her straight towards the sort of item supposedly beloved of small girls: a fluffy pink tiara. The results were tweeted under the title Baby Gender Diary, and Ball, a broadcast journalist who lives in London, couldn't believe how much there was to write about. ![]() They wanted to record the moments when their children were made aware of gender stereotypes when they were directed towards a view of the world in which girls and boys inhabit separate, rigid spheres of pink and blue – the first sphere passive, pretty and gentle, the second aggressive, active and strong. Their daughter Josie was three and their son Clem three months old. T hree years ago, while she was on maternity leave, Ros Ball and her partner, James, began a diary of their children's lives. ![]()
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