In recent years, a host of new science-themed toys targeting girls has arisen from companies large and small. GoldieBlox, the brainchild of a Stanford University engineer named Debbie Sterling, ...

From left, Bettina Chen, Jennifer Kessler and Alice Brooks are the makers of Roominate, a fully customizable toy house girls build themselves with circuitry, photographed at their offices at the ...

Science toys for girls are often, well, terrible. While boys get cool explosions and slime, girls get “Beauty Spa Lab” and “Perfect Perfume Lab.” And everything is always, as a rule, pink.

As a reaction to consumer demands (and one particularly viral tweet), Target has recently removed gender labels from the toy aisles. There is no longer a blue boys' aisle overflowing with trucks ...

Finally, Ochoa’s favorite science toys are the ones that can be used again and again. That is to say, ones that invite multiple ways for kids to interact or that present more complex problems to ...

She applauds the mission of GoldieBlox to engage girls with science and math. But she sees limits to the very idea of STEM toys made especially for girls. “It’s not just what they play with ...

Let Toys Be Toys responded to LEGO’s apology on Twitter: ... You made it look like girls can’t science and perpetuated the stereotype that women don’t understand or belong in science.

Science Girls With Toys This is what real scientists look like. By Kate Clancy. May 18, 2015 5:23 PM. ... two girls with toys, two girls with big questions about the world, ...

Other research suggests that gendered toys can also affect how children feel about themselves. For example, one study showed that five-year-old girls who looked at pictures of Barbie dolls (U.S ...