The rise of highly gendered toys is a result of capitalism, but it also suggests a deep, subconscious unease with the advances of the past few decades.
It's more surprising, really, that no one on the committee, principally its chairman, Keith Vaz, seems to have questioned whether, with that level of gender imbalance, it was the ideal investigator of the overwhelmingly gendered issue of prostitution.
Gender non-conforming parent Anna agrees: "My discomfort in highly gendered 'mommy' spaces prevented me from trying to access services or groups centered around nursing".
However there was little recognition by policy developers interviewed that the problems with the working conditions were gender based and, in turn that this needed to be addressed as a gendered issue in the policy development process.
"So for me violence is a gendered issue.
He was a misogynistic killer who targeted women's bodies in a highly gendered way.
Ever since I devoured Lolita in my late teens, I've been aware of an imbalanced and highly gendered depiction of intergenerational relationships in fiction.
To add insult to injury, they're healthy!" Astounded by the volubility of this quiet and gentle man, I have to ask: "Is this a gendered issue?
But it is striking that suicide, like mental health in general, is a gendered issue – it sometimes affects men and women in radically different ways.
The increasing separation of toys into "for boys" and "for girls", strongly coded by colour and reinforced by highly gendered marketing, is depriving girls of active toys and games that encourage the development of their spatial and analytical skills.
