I read with interest the article on “gender-neutral” Princess Awesome dresses (21 February). Much as I applaud this venture, I doubt that girls wearing dresses featuring dinosaur, ninja or traffic signal designs is a solution to the never-ending problem of gender inequality in our society.
Putting future women in dinosaur dresses, however appealing, remains a singularly divisive diversion, missing the point entirely.
The disdain for pink, or indeed for any particularly “feminine” colour or mode of dress, will only exacerbate the problem. If a woman in pink can’t be taken seriously in our society, it is surely not the colour but society’s attitude to it and to women that needs to be changed.
Julia Goddard
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
