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Originally Posted by M42
You can encourage women a lot better by not having such a stigma against them doing manly things in the first place - we get brought up with that crap from birth and get shouted down and laughed at every time we try to break the mold. Plus a lot of the machinery-type environments aren't very woman friendly, what with Bubba over there licking his lips while openly staring at your boobs and the like. Pink tools won't make those things poof out of existence.
Making everything pink is completely misunderstanding what drives women away in the first place.
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I understand all the social issues with inequality between men and women, and they piss me off a lot. But, using your logic, GoldieBlox isn't going to help any girls either, right?
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Seriously, there isn't a whole lot tool manufacturers can do to encourage more women to enter STEM fields, but they're doing something.