I really wonder how this will turn out if it becomes reality as apparently in California a proposed law for department stores with 500 or more employees would be obligated not to have sections that separate boys and girls items such as toys and clothing. By not doing so it states that the business can be fined about $1000. So I guess an example would be you can’t have say Barbie Dolls within a section labelled as for “girls” or Transformer toys in a “boys” section. This is apparently to eliminate gender biases in terms of suggesting that certain products are meant for people of certain genders.
This will be kind of interesting if it passes because if this is true where it would affect things such as clothing items as well I can imagine that making things potentially confusing per se. For example, would it be like how for adults there are usually “women’s” size shoes and “men” sized shoes where like there you can’t create and label separate sections for them? So in that sense it makes me wonder if all this was thought out already.
A lot of toy sections I see nowadays though aren’t specifically labelled as boys or girls. Instead they seem to be organized based on say the section of “dolls and makeup” versus “vehicles and tools” sort of display. But youth clothing items are definitely separated by gender still just like for adults. At the end of the day too would this type of change be simple or would it create an obstacle of some sort for a large business?