Dolls with professions related to science and technology … want – Observer

Gender equality is increasingly present in toy stores. After this month hit stores the kit of Lego with a paleontologist an astronomer and a chemical, a new company called Miss Possible created dolls with professions related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

“Dolls and activities that empower girls to dream big.” The motto of start up North – American Miss Possible wants to take the dolls stores that are not only princesses or serve only to cook, change clothes and hairstyles do. Supriya Hobbs and Janna Eaves, two former engineering students at the University of Illinois, created the dolls Marie Curie , inspired by a Nobel winning scientist and other physical chemistry, Bessie Coleman , first african american woman to become a pilot in the United States and Ada Lovelace , math and writer who was the first woman to program a computer.

The three choices represent the initial change in “opportunities than girls to see themselves,” reads the page. The creators of Miss Possible want children to have contact with women who have achieved great feats, to serve them as a model. “We are starting with science, technology, engineering and math because these fields have dire need of more women, but this is only the beginning.” The plan is to show children that women can change the world in different ways because “for girls, nowadays, everything is possible.”

In an interview with Mic, Supriya, who is daughter of two chemists, who played with Barbies account, but with Legos. The idea is not saying no to said female toys, but balancing the two worlds. Because, as an engineering student, often questioned why the classroom course had much guys.

The dolls only beginning to be sold in 2015 and will also have applications for activities children to do with the dolls. There are several studies that prove the influence that toys and games have on children’s development, so you never know if the next Marie Curie did not play with a doll when she was little scientist.