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I happened upon an article about children's toys that I thought was interesting. It goes to show the extent to which toys are specifically aimed at either girls or boys (based on the pink-for-girls/blue-for-boys color scheme).

By the way, I think it's interesting that pink/blue thing is so prevalent now. I believe I've read that long ago (possibly around the time of the founding of the United States, or maybe before--the time is slightly irrelevant to my point), pink was actually the color for boys, and blue was the color for girls. I believe it might have been in Europe. The idea was that pink was a softer version of red, which is the color of blood and courage and strength and manly stuff like that, and blue is a calm, soothing color and thus suitable for girl babies. 

I just think it's interesting that there's been such a dramatic shift because now blue is associated with boys and pink is so very strongly tied to girls.

Anyway, I can't remember how to properly add a link here, but the URL is as follows: http://www.divinecaroline.com/22120/83428-pink-blue--gender-children.