Have you gone to the store lately and looked at the toys section? Have you noticed the heavily gendered toys for children? Well I have. Lets talk about it. One thing that the 1920s has on the 21st century is cost. Take a teddy bear for example the cost of a teddy bear started at around $0.79. Given that was a normal amount back then now it seems to cheap to be true. Another toy that was oddly low priced was the tricycle. Coming at a whopping $8.98 when now they can be upwards of $70.00. I mean considering the dollar value in 1920 was much higher now. $1.00 in 1920 is the equivalent of $12.77 so that explains quite a bit. Now that we know everything was cheaper because the value of a dollar was higher I can talk about the gender roles them self in the 1920s. Often in the 1920s the toys that were given to girls were dedicated towards learning how to do house work and sew and be a very good house …show more content…
The final thing that’s super important to talk about is how are severe gender roles in toys affecting kids? One thing me research has lead me to conclude is that gender toys make profits on toys lower. The heavily gendered toys make it difficult for kids to feel conformal playing with such toys because they are made for the opposite sex. In another study I found it had concluded that younger girls love for or preference for pink is learned more than instincts. Studies have shown both male and female children have a preference for blue when younger. A serious and lasting affect that these sex-specific toys have is it makes girls feel as though they have to have a certain job that’s fit for females or even be a house wife or stay at home mom. Now the affects of this weren 't so prominent in the 1920s mostly because those gender roles were heavily set in the 1920s, but after the second wave of feminism the gendered toys had become more prominent because of the backlash on feminism. Places like target have vowed to make the toy isles less gendered and more for all