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The Easy Bake Oven Will Now be Made 'Gender Neutral'

By Victoria Cavaliere, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

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McKenna Pope, 13, got more than 40,000 signatures on her online petition at Change.org and the support of celebrity chefs including Bobby Flay, who backed her call for Hasbro to make a gender-neutral oven and to include boys in the ads.

December 18, 2012 Updated Dec 18, 2012 at 11:41 AM PDT

The Easy-Bake Oven, a toy marketed only to girls over its 50-year history, will go gender neutral starting in 2013.

McKenna Pope, 13, had petitioned manufacturer Hasbro for an Easy-Bake suitable for both aspiring boy and girl cooks, saying her 4-year-old brother Gavyn Boscio loves to bake but balks at playing with the “girl” toy.

Pope, of Garfield, N.J., met with the toymaker Monday at their headquarters in Rhode Island and was told that her little brother will get his wish starting in the fall of 2013.

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