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Pink and blue: the color of gender

Authors: Paolo Frassanito, Benedetta Pettorini

Published in: Child's Nervous System | Issue 8/2008

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Assigning color to gender is mostly a twentieth-century trait. It should be noted that it is a practice limited most often to Western Europe and the Americas. It would also seem that the effect of color-coded gender differences (pink for girls, blue for boys) existed oppositely initially [10]. …

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Title: Pink and blue: the color of gender
Authors: Paolo Frassanito
Benedetta Pettorini
Publication date: 01-08-2008
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Child's Nervous System / Issue 8/2008
Print ISSN: 0256-7040
Electronic ISSN: 1433-0350
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-007-0559-3

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