Lipkin explain the idea a being a woman in western american society and she supports her claims by adding every example thought of and not, that beats the idea of gender and gender roles into the head of girls since birth. She referencing that from the hospital a girl is presented with a pink hat and a boy a blue one, from then on she the girl is made to know her roles in life in some subtle and very obvious ways. Girls are made to play with toy vaccums and boys play with play hammers and builder blocks, which shows the difference in women and men jobs in society. The ratio to male to female contruction workers, and male to female maids could definitly reflect this very choice of play. We as girls are given easy bake ovens but I don't believe
