Why Pink for girls and Blue for boys?

India is one of the most colorful countries in the world with a rich heritage of its uses in all walks of life. Unfortunately jean culture is robbing this colorful heritage,

I don't think colors are gender basis. Many times women and girls also wear blue, and men also wears pink.

Honestly speaking, I have not used a pink colored shirt or trousers as far my memory serves me.

Some colors are gender bias like red which bis generally used by women.

Red shirts are used by me. Ascertaining gender bias based on color is unreliable. These days every color is being used by every gender..

You are right. But the amount of red colored material like sarees, bindis, ribbons skirts, sandals and shoes etc  that women use are far far high in proportion to what a few men use. It is because of such one sided use that red gets associated with feminine gender.

rambabu wrote:

Red shirts are used by me. Ascertaining gender bias based on color is unreliable. These days every color is being used by every gender..

 

You remember the promise you will pick me from airport when I visit Vizag in December this year. I request you to please wear a red shirt so I could spot you immediately.

 

My Red tea shirts outnumber my wife's sarees. She always prefers floral designs where even the traces of RED are not there.

One swallow does not make a summer. 

And with one example one cannot apply to all.

In color choice studies red comes out to be color widely chosen by anarchists. 

Gender bias? How can choice of colors be called bias?  I love pinks.. Pink is a feminine color that highlights  the soft qualities of womanhood beautifully. Men are indeed sadly stuck to a few colors ( though not all men)

Pink and blue are colors identified with specific genders, I agree. However, a decade (or more I guess) ago pink was the in color for men's shirts. Every party I attended men wore pink shirts or ties. It suddenly got an identity as a unisex color. I don't know if anyone here remembers this. 

Websters would define Bias as

 a tendency to believe that some people, ideas, etc., are better than others that usually results in treating some people unfairly

: a strong interest in something or ability to do something

Unfair colors.? ?? 

I love blue too.. sky blue is a favorite color of mine not just pink. 

It all amounts to one thing. Nothing will stay forever. Over a period the inevitable CHANGE wipes off old beliefs and brings in  new trends.

Wisdom lies in going along with the Change. I have no particular preference for colors. Whatever trendy an comfortable are my preferences.

People's choices and tastes are fickle.  

My little research shows that in 1900 pink was for boys and blue for girls. However after the second world war things changed and the norm became blue for boys and pink for girls. 

To put it in a nutshell  - The whole history of color coding was a gimmick of mass manufacturing. 

Read this  for more information  http://www.livescience.com/22037-pink-girls-blue-boys.html

That's the point. Color coding is not reliable when it comes to judging one's attitude.

rambabu wrote:

That's the point. Color coding is not reliable when it comes to judging one's attitude.

 

It doesn't mean anything but commercialism.  Marketing and ad men  will do anything to sell stuff. 

 

 

And you can add Gullible. Such concepts like color coding is a marketing strategy using gullible as the promoters.

The advertisement industry and marketing people always prey on the gullible nature of the buyers.  It is their strategy. And here we are arguing about  nonexistent bias.  Sounds funny to me. 

Funny indeed. Not only Advertising industry, even the Pseudo and self declared God men are thriving , prospering and flourishing in the Gullible.

rambabu wrote:

I fail to understand, how a few colors are going to pave the way for gender bias " Please elucidate.

Hello Rambabu, we are living in 21 century. I think colors have not any link with gender. Pink red color is popular in females. black, blue color are also using by females.