Toy Company Roominate™ Aims to Close Long Standing Gender Gap in Engineering Fields with Open-Ended Building Kits for Girls

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SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--It’s no coincidence that Stanford alumni and co-founders of Roominate™, a line of stackable, award-winning and customizable wired building toys, found themselves among the female minority in their graduate classes. According to the American Community Survey Reports, 2013, men are employed in a STEM occupation at twice the rate of women. With this in mind, Alice Brooks and Bettina Chen created a line of open-ended building kits to encourage girls to have fun w

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