Walk into any children's clothing store and you'll see it immediately: the great divide. Blues, greens, reds, and blacks flood the boys' section, while pink and purple dominate the girls' area. But is ...

Dockterman is a correspondent at TIME. She covers culture, society, and gender, including topics from blockbuster movies to the #MeToo movement to how the pandemic pushed moms out of the workplace. I ...

Pink was once considered to be for boys (seriously)! We’re living in fluid times in terms of gender designations for babies. On the one hand, 2017 saw the first-ever birth of a baby to be recorded ...

“The ‘I hate pink’ phase was never about the color,” an Instagram post reads. With more than 20.9 million views, the post’s comments are rooted in a concept that has driven society’s perception of ...

Dressed in pink from head to toe and surrounded by her many pink possessions, four-year-old Jeeyoo strikes a pose in her Seoul, South Korea, bedroom for a 2007 photograph. Also in Seoul, six-year-old ...

Two-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt sits primly on a stool, his white skirt spread smoothly over his lap, his hands clasping a hat trimmed with a feather. Shoulder-length hair and patent leather ...