{"id":52753,"date":"2012-11-28T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=52753"},"modified":"2012-11-27T22:57:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T03:57:17","slug":"girls-vs-boys-laptops-guess-which-does-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/11\/28\/girls-vs-boys-laptops-guess-which-does-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls vs. Boys &#8220;Laptops&#8221;: Guess Which Does More?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2009, Lisa posted about microscopes and telescopes in a Toys&#8217;R&#8217;Us catalog. In both cases, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/12\/29\/girls-need-less-power\/\" target=\"_blank\">the pink version was the least powerful option<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reader Claudia, who lives in Ireland, found a similar example. Back in October, a supermarket outside Dublin sent out a mailer that advertised boys&#8217; and girls&#8217; laptops. The boys&#8217; version has 50 functions; the girls get just half as many:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/11\/DSC_1243.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52754\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/11\/DSC_1243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, it looks more like a packet of birth control pills than a laptop.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em>Gwen Sharp is an associate professor of sociology at Nevada State College. You can follow her on Twitter at @gwensharpnv.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2009, Lisa posted about microscopes and telescopes in a Toys&#8217;R&#8217;Us catalog. In both cases, the pink version was the least powerful option. Reader Claudia, who lives in Ireland, found a similar example. Back in October, a supermarket outside Dublin sent out a mailer that advertised boys&#8217; and girls&#8217; laptops. The boys&#8217; version has [&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],"class_list":["post-52753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52753","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=52753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52756,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52753\/revisions\/52756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}