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Does anyone still think that stereotyping boys and girls is a problem when so many more opportunities are available to both sexes than ever before?
Girls can be in a football team, boys can attend a ballet class. Girls can wear trousers and have a short haircut, boys can paint their nails and grow their hair. Women can work as engineers and mechanics, men can work as nurses and care workers. We may even be seeing the breakdown of our traditional understandings of gender: increasing numbers of people no longer identify themselves as only male or female, with some identifying as both, or neither. Are we seeing the end of gender, gender roles and gender prejudice?
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