Comments on: “What Shall I Be?” Board Games for Girls and Boys

By: What Shall I Be?

What Shall I Be? — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:57:04 +0000

[...] overwhelmed by all the possibilities. The world is wide open! If only the classic board game What Shall I Be? had a career track for this. [...]

By: Lesa

Lesa — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 03:18:08 +0000

I loved the game and it was my favorite in the 70′s. I still have it! Imagine this…my granddaughter plays it with me and we can just enjoy the game. No worries about who wears pants or who has tight clothes on. But she grows up in an age where Ellen DeGenerous and Barbie are both respected and cool. How easy it is when we don’t overthink simple, fun game and can just picture ourself in that place. Both of my daughters are nurses, they wear dresses and pants…what’s the big deal?

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:47:39 +0000

I think this looks like a really fun game and i kind of want to play.

By: Janet

Janet — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:50:11 +0000

I found this article when discussing old board games with younger co-workers. I received the orginal game in 1970 as a birthday gift and my mother threw it in the garbage can as soon as the guests left the house. Thank God I was raised by a smart woman!

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By: Olivia

Olivia — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:48:23 +0000

(Found this through a link on GeekaChicas) As a child in the ’70′s, I was blissfully unaware of societal expectations. Though my mother stayed at home and ran the household until I was in middle school, she continually made it clear that I had as many career options as my brother. I’m pretty sure that game (especially the early version)would have made her blow a gasket.

By: Sociological Images » “BOYS FIX THINGS. GIRLS NEED THINGS FIXED.”

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:58:46 +0000

[...] also “What Shall I Be,” 1960s and ’70s board games for girls and boys. tags: change, children/youth, gender, history, media| Permalink| GUEST POST: [...]

By: Rob Gordon

Rob Gordon — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:37:34 +0000

I am in my fifties, and not too many people remember that the classified ads used to be divided by gender- – i.e. Help Wanted Men and Help Wanted Women.

By: ryan

ryan — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:20:53 +0000

I think it’s interesting that the pictures in the updated version are still “feminized”. Did female surgeons really wear skirts? And what about the form fitting “ladies” space outfit?

By: lisa

lisa — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:25:31 +0000

Nice observations, all!

By: Interrobang

Interrobang — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:11:18 +0000

Also, in ten years, three of the girls have discovered pants. That seems a significant change too, probably coinciding with the death of skirt-based dress codes for girls in non-uniformed schools. Oddly, the surgeon is wearing a dress. I can’t imagine surgical scrubs consisting of a dress, but maybe that’s just because I’m too young to remember any such thing.

By: MissPrism

MissPrism — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 11:21:04 +0000

They’ve got different taglines too: “the exciting game of career girls” versus “the exciting career game for boys.” Presumably because girls might not have a career at all.

By: Sanguinity

Sanguinity — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:45:56 +0000

Also, in ten years, one of the girls stopped being white. Which seems just as significant a change, in my mind.