Pervasive pinkification

Thoughtful piece by the Antonia Senior in the Times on the pervasive pinkification of girls, linked to the OECD's stats on the UK's disproportionate occupational gender gaps.

I write this under a well-meaning avalanche of baby girl gifts, nearly all of them pink. Taking my 2 month old daughter to a book launch dressed in a unisex velour brown babygro, it was assumed she was a boy. I've solved this for now by having a whole box of pink baby clothes that I prefer not to use, especially that sicky pastel shade. But how to defend her against the dragons of dumbed-down Disney princessdom?