Legos for Girls

03/26/2015

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.
Confucius

"Boys as well as girls should be able to play with the same Legos^®," claims Lego^®. However, The Optimist (Winter 2015) reported that most Lego^® characters are still men, and when Lego^® shows a profession, it's most often with a male figure. Women, on the other hand, are represented by princesses and mermaids.

A Dutch scientist, Ellen Kooijman, decided to do something about this. "I missed the female Lego^® figures at work. It would make the Lego^® community much more diverse," she contended. Kooijman responded to a call to design your own Lego^® figures and submitted a paleontologist, an astronomer, and a chemist. Her figures were so popular that Lego^® decided to make this set a reality. Coming to a store near you this summer.

Kooijman was satisfied with how Lego^® executed her designs, but did have one criticism: "I highly discourage wearing makeup in the laboratory. It can contaminate the materials you work with."

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