Cartoons such as Peppa Pig and Paw Patrol prevent women from going into construction and road maintenance as they perpetuate gender stereotypes, a Spanish MP has said.

Marta Serrano, Spain’s secretary general for land transportation, has blamed children’s television programmes such as Paw Patrol and Peppa Pig for the lack of women taking up construction jobs, because they present stereotypes of “giant,

Spanish MP, Marta Serrano, said the show prevented women from going into jobs including road maintenance as they presented all the workers in these roles as 'giant, very muscular men'.