There is a new toy on the market called Goldieblox and I just love everything that it stands for! It is a toy that gives girls a chance to be engineers! The superstar class is filled with female mathematicians! How empowering is it for girls to know they can become whatever they want to be when they grow up! I wish these had been around when I was little!
http://www.goldieblox.com/
Here is an interesting article I read about Goldieblox and other toys marketed for girls:
If 3 Little Girls Did This To My House, I'd Do Everything I Could To Get Them Full Rides To Stanford
By: Adam Mordecai
Fewer than 3 in 10 graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are women. And barely 1 in 10 actual engineers are women. Early in a girl's life, the toys marketed to her are usually things that don't encourage her to enter those fields. GoldieBlox intends to change that by teaching them while they are young that these fields can be fun — and apparently epic, by the looks of this super-genius 2-minute video. Watch and learn.
http://www.goldieblox.com/
Here is an interesting article I read about Goldieblox and other toys marketed for girls:
If 3 Little Girls Did This To My House, I'd Do Everything I Could To Get Them Full Rides To Stanford
By: Adam Mordecai
Fewer than 3 in 10 graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are women. And barely 1 in 10 actual engineers are women. Early in a girl's life, the toys marketed to her are usually things that don't encourage her to enter those fields. GoldieBlox intends to change that by teaching them while they are young that these fields can be fun — and apparently epic, by the looks of this super-genius 2-minute video. Watch and learn.