{"id":38140,"date":"2011-08-02T11:31:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T16:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=38140"},"modified":"2011-11-08T23:02:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T04:02:55","slug":"kids-luggage-normalizes-gendered-occupations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/08\/02\/kids-luggage-normalizes-gendered-occupations\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids&#8217; Luggage Normalizes Gendered Occupations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emily H. sent in a great example of gendering kids&#8217; products. She looked at kids&#8217; luggage on the Target website and noticed a significant difference in the boys&#8217; and girls&#8217; version of one brand. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.target.com\/Embark-Boy-Pattern-Pilot\/dp\/B0046J3QIO\/ref=br_1_13?ie=UTF8&amp;id=Embark%20Boy%20Pattern%20Pilot&amp;node=1116288&amp;searchSize=30&amp;searchView=grid5&amp;searchPage=1&amp;sr=1-13&amp;qid=1312047605&amp;rh=&amp;searchBinNameList=style_name%2Ctarget_com_brand-bin%2Ctarget_com_primary_color-bin%2Cpattern_name-bin%2Cprice&amp;searchRank=reviewrank&amp;frombrowse=1\" target=\"_blank\">boys&#8217; version<\/a>, in the standard blue, is called &#8220;Embark Boy Pattern Pilot&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/08\/boysluggage.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-38141\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/08\/boysluggage-500x341.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/08\/boysluggage-500x341.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/08\/boysluggage.jpg 641w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.target.com\/Girls-Embark-Pilot-Asst-Upright\/dp\/B002VPRBAE\/ref=br_1_18?ie=UTF8&amp;id=Girls%20Embark%20Pilot%20Asst%20Upright&amp;node=1116288&amp;searchSize=30&amp;searchView=grid5&amp;searchPage=1&amp;sr=1-18&amp;qid=1312047605&amp;rh=&amp;searchBinNameList=style_name%2Ctarget_com_brand-bin%2Ctarget_com_primary_color-bin%2Cpattern_name-bin%2Cprice&amp;searchRank=reviewrank&amp;frombrowse=1\" target=\"_blank\">girls&#8217; version<\/a> is identical in size and construction. The girls&#8217; versions are pink and purple, but that&#8217;s not the difference that drew Emily&#8217;s attention. Take a look:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/08\/girlsluggage.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-38142\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/08\/girlsluggage-500x318.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/08\/girlsluggage-500x318.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/08\/girlsluggage.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notice the name? Where the boys&#8217; version is for pilots, the girls&#8217; appears to be for the pilot&#8217;s assistant. Just a nice little example of the normalization of the idea that girls are supportive helpers to the boys who direct the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily H. sent in a great example of gendering kids&#8217; products. She looked at kids&#8217; luggage on the Target website and noticed a significant difference in the boys&#8217; and girls&#8217; version of one brand. The boys&#8217; version, in the standard blue, is called &#8220;Embark Boy Pattern Pilot&#8221;: The girls&#8217; version is identical in size and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2099,2100],"class_list":["post-38140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38145,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38140\/revisions\/38145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}