--- description: Perfect for the tiny, aspiring astronomers, paleontologists and chemists in your life title: LEGO: Female Scientists Toys Available After Popular Demand image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt89a2a39bc3546723/69869e3acd6848361a095ea5/screen-shot-2014-08-02-at-2-41-39-pm.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Living](/tag/time-section-living/) ## Living Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # LEGO Adds New Female Scientist Toys After Fans Demand Them ## Video: 'The Lego Movie' Animators Show How the Film Was Made [Watch (HLS stream): 'The Lego Movie' Animators Show How the Film Was Made](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/3qWrWyhr.m3u8) (3:29)  _Published 2014-02-19. With an interesting mix of CG animation and actual LEGO sets, the final look of The LEGO Movie has a surprising touch of realness and appears almost as if someone had actually painstakingly animated each and every movement through stop-motion._  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 2, 2014 6:43 PM CUT  LEGO Female Scientists LEGO Female ScientistsLEGO  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 2, 2014 6:43 PM CUT Young girls interested in science finally have some encouragement from LEGO. The toy company is selling a new kit, the Research Institute, which features women in various [STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) jobs](http://time.com/2917364/chelsea-clinton-schools-girls-stem/ "undefined"): a paleontologist, an astronomer and a chemist. According to LEGO, the set was conceived by [geoscientist Ellen Kooijman](http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Research-Institute-21110 "undefined") as a part of the LEGO Ideas series, sets that “are based on fans’ ideas voted up by the community, and have been chosen for release.” [As i09 notes](http://io9.com/lego-gets-told-off-by-a-seven-year-old-girl-1514290228 "undefined"), the addition comes a few months after a letter from a 7-year-old girl complaining about the opportunities for female figurines went viral. “All the \[LEGO\] girls did was sit at home, go to the beach, and shop, and they had no jobs,” Charlotte wrote, “but the boys went on adventures, worked, saved people, and had jobs, even swam with sharks.” Unfortunately for Charlotte, there are no sharks at the Research Institute, but there _are_ dinosaur fossils, which are just as cool. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3074690/lego-women-in-science-stem-toys/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3074690/lego-women-in-science-stem-toys/"},"headline":"LEGO Adds New Female Scientist Toys After Fans Demand Them","datePublished":"2014-08-02T18:43:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:46.046Z","description":"Perfect for the tiny, aspiring astronomers, paleontologists and chemists in your life","url":"https://time.com/3074690/lego-women-in-science-stem-toys/","keywords":["Living","Lego","Toys"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt89a2a39bc3546723/69869e3acd6848361a095ea5/screen-shot-2014-08-02-at-2-41-39-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt89a2a39bc3546723/69869e3acd6848361a095ea5/screen-shot-2014-08-02-at-2-41-39-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"LEGO Female Scientists","caption":"LEGO Female Scientists","creditText":"LEGO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3074690/lego-women-in-science-stem-toys/","name":"LEGO Adds New Female Scientist Toys After Fans Demand Them"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"'The Lego Movie' Animators Show How the Film Was Made","description":"With an interesting mix of CG animation and actual LEGO sets, the final look of The LEGO Movie has a surprising touch of realness and appears almost as if someone had actually painstakingly animated each and every movement through stop-motion.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/3qWrWyhr/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-02-19T19:36:29.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/3qWrWyhr.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3074690/lego-women-in-science-stem-toys/","duration":"PT3M29S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3074690/lego-women-in-science-stem-toys/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```