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 ...

Ask a little girl what her favourite colour is, and chances are she'll shout "pink". Toy aisles and clothing rails are packed with this shade, but is nothing but pink for girls harmful? How different ...

Is there truth to the idea that men prefer blue and women like pink? Claudia Hammond investigates, and discovers why these colours matter more than we think. It’s easy to spot the girls’ section of a ...

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 ...