Kooijman's original proposal included 12 female figures, including a geologist, a robotics engineer, a firefighter, a judge and a falconer. Follow @JolieLeeDC on Twitter.

Girl Lego builders can now use three female scientists as their protagonists in a new set so popular it is already out of stock. The 165-piece Research Institute features a female paleontologist ...

Wearing glasses and a lab coat, and holding out two Erlenmeyer flasks, Professor C. Bodin (as her nametag reads) is Lego's first female scientist. The new model, simply dubbed the "Scientist," is ...

Lego, the Denmark-based toy company, has approved designs for a new collection titled “Research Institute,” an all-female line with characters such as astronomer, paleontologist, and chemist ...

Created by geophysicist Ellen Kooijman on Lego Ideas, the crowd-sourced design platform, the collection features three female scientists: an astronomer, a paleontologist and a chemist.

Photo/LEGO The words of a 7-year-old just might have been the final push needed to make a set of female scientist LEGOs a reality. In January, a letter to the company by a little girl named ...

“All right, Lego, maybe it’s not your job to dictate culture and produce female mountain climbers. But then don’t dictate culture by making female pretzel girls. Lego is modular.

This weekend Lego unveiled their Minifigure Series 11 and the stand-out is the female scientist. This is Prof. Bodin, the minifig who’s breaking the brick ceiling.

Lego announced this week that it would be launching a new series of minifigures -- all girls, and all scientists. Helene Haga plays with Legos at the annual Lego Festival at the Technical Museum ...

Female characters only account for 16% of all LEGO minifigures, according to a SPARK analysis. However, if you don’t include the Friends line, which is specifically made for and marketed to ...

Months after a girl took the company to task for its female toy figures, Lego has released the Research Institute, a play set created by a "real-life geophysicist, Ellen Kooijman," the company says.