Whether it’s the deep tones of magenta or barely tinted carnation, the color pink is, for better or for worse, associated with femininity. This wasn't always the case. In fact, it was once the ...

Pink wasn’t considered the color for girls until the 1940s. That probably comes as a surprise to anyone who’s walked into the girls’ section of a clothing store lately, but it didn’t use ...

For the last nine years, Yoon has been photographing toddlers surrounded by their “favorite” colors–little girls, dressed in pink, blending in with a sea of pink Hello Kitty and princess ...

Girls Are Taught To 'Think Pink,' But That Wasn't Always So After World War II ended, Rosie the Riveter traded in her factory blues for June Cleaver's pink apron. A new exhibit traces pink back to ...

The 1940s brought another turn of events. Now, pink became the colour for girls, while blue was for the boys. Why this happened is not clear, but according to Philip Cohen, a sociologist also at ...

Pink and blue arrived, along with other pastels, as colors for babies in the mid-19th century, yet the two colors were not promoted as gender signifiers until just before World War I--and even ...

After searching a database of more than five million books published in the U.S. between 1880 and 1980, he found many examples of the standard “blue for boys” and “pink for girls ...