Pink for Girls -It's all in the Genes (and the blouses and the skirts..)

A Study by the University of Newcastle has concluded that women prefer redder shades when given a choice. They checked more than 200 men and women to choose between different colours. Just to make sure the women were not just showing cultural conditioning, they also tested a control group of Chinese people who are not brought up to associate pink with the feminine.

Of course this does not excuse the clothes shops from only stocking pink and white girls’ clothes in their stores. I can't stand the fact that we are so limited when looking for clothes for our 7 month old daughter. I don't want to dress her up as a Barbie doll or a princess, but it is next to impossible to find clothes which do not have pink in them or cute little flowers or other 'girlie' things. My son’s clothes have animals and dinosaurs and tractors on them... much more fun.

I hope my daughter will grow up to be confident and strong and independent and not pink and fluffy and I refuse to dress her up in a way which is being imposed on me by a society which expects little girls to be little pink princesses. Luckily our first child was a boy so she gets to where his clothes.

People are always assuming she is a boy, but I don't care, because for one thing the darker colours she wears are much better at hiding the dirt/food/sick etc....

Humans do appear to be 'hard wired' to have an underlying liking for blue and this is not so biased between men and women so why can't we have girls clothes in blue...with tractors on....