EuroMed gender equality news

"Pressure from customers and campaign groups sees the end of Boy's Stuff and Little Miss Arty range.

Marks & Spencer has agreed to make the packaging of all of its toys gender neutral by spring 2014, after customers complained that it was marketing items according to stereotypes."

"Research from WorldPay Zinc shows that Britains still associate particular roles and characteristics with particular genders. So are men braver and do women make better nannies?

Imagine a surgeon getting ready before an operation. They're checking in with their patient, scrubbing in, putting on the mask. Tying back their hair. You didn't imagine that? Were you thinking of a man?"

The idea that men and women's brains are "wired" differently is wrong. As long as our children’s brains are in the process of developing and forming connections, don’t we owe it to them to give them the best chance possible of escaping pre-determined, limited roles in an unequal society?