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Well this is interesting.

A journalist and father has highlighted society's changing attitudes towards sexism and gender roles throughout the years by comparing two copies of the same book printed 30 years apart.

Alan Taylor, a senior editor at The Atlantic, noticed a few differences between his childhood copy of Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever and the version his children read.

He posted the differences in an album on his Flickr account.

"The 1963 edition is my own, bought for me in the late 60s when I was a toddler, and read to tatters," he said.

"The 1991 edition belongs to my kids today.

"I was so familiar with the older one that I immediately started noticing a few differences."

He uploaded 14 of the "more interesting differences" he could find.

And they reveal a lot about how society has changed.

Take the front covers, for instance.

The mother bunny cooking in the home in the earlier edition is joined by a father bunny to help with the chores in the 90s version.

"Policeman" becomes "police officer", "fireman" becomes "firefighter" and the cautioned driver in the bottom left corner's fur has been lightened.

[Image via Flickr/Alan Taylor]