Dockterman is a correspondent at TIME. She covers culture, society, and gender, including topics from blockbuster movies to the #MeToo movement to how the pandemic pushed moms out of the workplace. I ...

“The ‘I hate pink’ phase was never about the color,” an Instagram post reads. With more than 20.9 million views, the post’s comments are rooted in a concept that has driven society’s perception of ...

Margot Robbie poses for a photo during a pink carpet event to promote her new film "Barbie." (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images) Pink is the color of the summer, ...

Absent from the visible spectrum and neither a wave nor a particle, the color pink is, for many, a scientific enigma: how can a shade that doesn’t even appear in the rainbow exist? The answer lies in ...

For example, if you’ve recently been to a fast food restaurant, you might notice that there’s a lot of red–red chairs and red signs, red trays, and red cups. When, on the other hand, was the last time ...

Installation view of Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color at the Museum at FIT. Objects lent by Raina Bajpai, Jessica Barber and Jennifer Morgan, Grazia d’Annunzio, The Fashion Class, ...

Pink—which may go back over a billion years—was once the color of fierce ancient hunters, powerful French women, and yes, boys. Pink has long beguiled humans—used to dye clothing and tint cheeks even ...

Walk into any children's clothing store and you'll see it immediately: the great divide. Blues, greens, reds, and blacks flood the boys' section, while pink and purple dominate the girls' area. But is ...

Fans of pink know–there’s something wonderful about putting on the color. Whether it’s a shocking swipe of orchid lipstick or pastel cotton candy colored hair, it’s an instant injection of punchy ...

Elvis Presley’s iconic 1955 Cadillac, Marilyn Monroe in a figure-hugging dress in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and the sea of “pussyhats” that swarmed the Women’s March in Washington DC earlier this ...

My mother loved pink. Despite my protests, she decorated my bedroom in pink—with a pink eyelet bedspread, too fragile to lie down on to read a book, a pink electric blanket, and a pink shade on the ...