{"id":4262,"date":"2008-12-07T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=4262"},"modified":"2010-11-25T05:18:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T10:18:06","slug":"what-shall-i-be-board-games-for-girls-and-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/12\/07\/what-shall-i-be-board-games-for-girls-and-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat Shall I Be?\u201d Board Games for Girls and Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 1966 and 1976 editions of this old board game illustrate both historical ideas about gender and the way they can change in just ten years.<\/p>\n<p>The 1966 version for girls (found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradleysalmanac.com\/2005\/08\/exciting-game-of-career-girls.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4263\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Options for girls include going to charm school to become a model, nursing school to become a nurse, drama school to become an actress, college to become a teacher,\u00a0ballet school to become a ballet dancer, or airline training school to become an airline hostess.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/board1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4265\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/board1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"402\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 1966 version for boys (found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardgamegeek.com\/images\/game\/7304\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4266\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/pic30062_md.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Options for boys include going to law school to become a statesman, graduate school to become a scientist, medical school to become a doctor, college to become an athlete (!?), technical school to become an engineer, or\u00a0flight school to become an astronaut.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/pic30066_md.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4267\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/pic30066_md.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They revised the girl&#8217;s game (I&#8217;m not sure about the boy&#8217;s game) in 1976 (found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectorsquest.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/11\/a-review-of-what-shall-i-be-the-exciting-game-of-career-girls\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).\u00a0 Girls could now choose between going to medical school\u00a0to become a surgeon, the riding academy to be a jockey, flight training school to be an astronaut, college to be a commentator, drama school to be a director, and law school\u00a0to be a lawyer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/picture41.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4268\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/picture41.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the revised boy&#8217;s version included going to college to become an elementary school teacher, to medical school to be a pediatrician, or to a dance academy to become a dancer.\u00a0 I predict not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1966 and 1976 editions of this old board game illustrate both historical ideas about gender and the way they can change in just ten years. The 1966 version for girls (found here): Options for girls include going to charm school to become a model, nursing school to become a nurse, drama school to become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2096,2087,2100,1711,23705,76],"class_list":["post-4262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-gender-work","tag-toysgames","tag-vintage-stuff","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4262"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29966,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions\/29966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}