Culture & Religion — May 11, 2015

Amazon Drops Gendered Taxonomy for Its Toys

The taxonomy team at Amazon is dropping “Boy” and “Girl” as categories for organizing its toys, as friends of those working at the online goods distributor recently announced on Twitter.

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The taxonomy team at Amazon is dropping “Boy” and “Girl” as categories for organizing its toys, as friends of those working at the online goods distributor recently announced on Twitter.

This week Amazon eliminated the gendered taxonomy of toys: http://t.co/fn8Afi7Kvq There are no more “boys” and “girls” sections!

— Jack Danger (@jackdanger) May 2, 2015

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