Did she win a Nobel Prize? Was she an inventor? Did she make a discovery?
These are some of the questions that Polish designer Zuzanna Kozerska-Girard wants more children to ask as they learn about famous women while playing her debut board game ‘Who’s She?’.
“We basically don’t know their stories. We don’t know enough about women who have done amazing stuff,” said Kozerska-Girard, founder of games company Playeress.
Similar to the classic game ‘Guess Who?’, two players are each given a biography card of a famous woman and must ask each other questions until her identity is answered correctly: be it French spy Josephine Baker or Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai.
“The game is for girls as much as it is for boys. They need to see powerful women around them and see them as their heroes,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
The game is being sold at a time when the achievements of women — from scientists, politicians, campaigners and artists — are increasingly being recognised online and in public spaces.
Featuring watercolour illustrations of 28 female icons, Ms. Kozerska-Girard said she designed the game, which costs €75 (₹6,0000, because she wanted children to know that women of all nationalities were as capable as men in any profession.
“If you’re a girl who’s three years old and you see men everywhere in positions with more power, you’ll just think that that’s the way it is,” said Ms. Kozerska-Girard.
“I think it’s important to bring this (gender gap) up with kids — and the simple way to do this is by playing games.”
Since ‘Who’s She?’ launched in November on crowdfunding site Kickstarter, Ms. Kozerska-Girard has sold more than 6,000 units and received some €500,000 to produce the game, which she hand-makes out of wood.
Meanwhile, in India, Twitter launched a new campaign on Tuesday called #WebWonderWomen to celebrate women achievers.
The campaign, in partnership with the Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) and human rights organisation Breakthrough, will allow users to nominate women who they consider rising stars in various fields.
The woman should be an achiever under one of the following categories: health or fitness, community, media, literature, art, sports, technology travel, business, legal or policy, governmental, entertainment, fashion or beauty, finance, food and environment.
(With inputs from PTI)