Engineering, it's not just for boys

Those who following companies like Adafruit will already know that some of the best engineers are women but a lot of young people don't realise that they don't actually have to conform the the gender stereo types pushed on them by adults.

Bye Bye Barbie: GoldieBlox Releases First Action Figure For Girls - Forbes

GoldieBlox Zipline Action Figure

Problemchild over 11 years ago

I see that product is actually available and they even teach a principle with it ...Not bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UPLbgPXIiJA
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Problemchild over 11 years ago

I rather like the video Andy, although I'm sure this isn't the first Action toy for Girls. It's like Dora the Explorer with a spanner
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Problemchild over 11 years ago

Indeed many Jobs are just not that fashionable to young girls/women.. how many female spanner monkeys do we have.. not many despite what Rihanna might let you think!
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Problemchild over 11 years ago in reply to shabaz

I think this onset of anger issues is a blood sugar thing. Have some grub and a nice cup of tea before attacking our non -engineering brothers. They cant help the issues they have
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mcb1 over 11 years ago in reply to shabaz

As for the difference between Pozidrive and Philips, they are unnoticed subtleties : )
AND it's not just non-engineers making that mistake.
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shabaz over 11 years ago

Hehe. Maybe even basic tools are unused by many people - male and female. Blu-tack is the modern replacement for nail and hammer ; (
As for the difference between Pozidrive and Philips, they are unnoticed subtleties : )
</end of stereotyping non-engineers on a friday>
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