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"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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