A t-shirt is a perfect canvas to showcase your creativity, passion and personality. "This means many girls will perceive that the 'boy' clothes and the themes featured there are not for themselves," she wrote.Redwolf is an indie clothing label that brings you the most amazing t-shirts and accessories online inspired by everything pop culture! Redwolf offers a wide range of products from cool t shirts and sweatshirts to accessories like badges, posters, laptop skins and fridge magnets. Though parents of girls can just shop for them in the boys' sections, Hinde said research shows children are already sensitive to gender stereotyping by the age of 18-24 months. "I am particularly concerned about the scarcity and disparity of science and science fiction-oriented toys, clothes, and outreach for girls." Katie Hinde is not a parent herself, but she said that as a scientist and academic, she is concerned about gender stereotyping that might suggest to young girls that science is not for them. However, "As a scientist who works on inclusivity in academia and science, I spend a lot of time thinking about the pipeline," she wrote in her essay. Hinde is married but does not have children herself. "I was always looking right in front of me, or down." When I was a kid at these stores I never looked up," she said. Hinde said she hung the tops on lower rungs "so that the 'NASA' would be at eye level to a little girl walking by. Never miss a parenting story from ! Sign up for our newsletters here. Hinde praised Target for carrying girls' "NASA" shirts as well, but pointed out that while the boys' shirts were easy to find at at children's eye levels in her local store, the girls' versions were much harder to find and less prominently displayed in places a little girl would see them. In an essay Hinde posted on her website after the resulting "unexpected Twitter storm," she called switching the merchandise's store placement a "tiny-scale, subversive, nonviolent, direct action" in response to finding herself surrounded by "too much stereotypically gendered clothing" in the girls' clothing section. Though Hinde did not identify Target in her tweet in an effort to make a larger statement that didn't single out the retailer, many commenters recognized the store and the merchandise. Yes I did." The tweet garnered over 26,000 retweets before Hinde made her account private after receiving an onslaught of both praise and sometimes searing criticism. Hinde snapped a picture and posted it to her Twitter account with the caption, "Did I just take a bunch of NASA tank tops from the boys' section and put them in the girls' section? Yes. Instead, she realized that the girls' section had very little science-themed shirts for girls compared to the boys' section – a problem she says is not Target's alone. After seeing "Wonder Woman," Katie Hinde was hoping to find a T-shirt for a young relative at Target. So, she grabbed some of the boys' "NASA" tank tops and placed them front and center in the girls' section instead. Hinde decided the boys' section had plenty of "science pizzazz," in her words, but the girls' section needed more of it. "And the whole time, the boys 'NASA' T-shirts were visible from nearly all of the sections I was walking through." "Once I realized there wasn't what I was looking for, I started to survey what was there," Hinde told TODAY Parents.
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