California lawmakers pass bill requiring gender neutral sections in department stores
The California State Legislature on Wednesday passed a bill intended to ban the practice of separating store sections for items like toys by the traditional pink and blue color schemes, the Associated Press reported.
The bill does not seek to prohibit boys and girls sections in department stores but rather is aimed at requiring stores to have a gender-neutral section displaying items “regardless of whether they have been traditionally marketed for either girls or for boys,” according to the AP.
The bill would only affect department stores with 500 or more employees and would also not apply to clothes but only to toys and “childcare items,” the AP noted.
California lawmakers have previously tried to bass this bill at least three times and first embarked on this latest attempt in March.
Assemblyman Evan Low (D), who authored the current bill, told the AP that it was inspired by a 10-year-old girl named Britten whose mother works in his office.
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