Thank you @sanmccarron on Twitter for pointing out this blog post about girls and pink microscopes/tools.

The author makes some excellent points and you begin to wonder who designed these products and for what purpose (to look pretty or to be functional?).  I’d agree that presenting positive imagery of successful (and everyday) female scientists is more likely to encourage women into science careers.

Perhaps we are looking too deep.  At the end of the day the makers of pink products want to sell units, that is their driver rather than encouraging women into science.

(And I wouldn’t mind a pink microscope, mine are all a boring grey colour.  I kitted out my lab with pink headphones and they boys all use them too – we don’t believe in gender stereotypes at my school!).

(Originally posted on Tumblr).