My wife always gives the example of car airbags and crash test dummies: carmakers in the 1960s successfully resisted including female-sized crash test dummies.

My wife always gives the example of car airbags and crash test dummies: carmakers in the 1960s successfully resisted including female-sized crash test dummies. In fact, female-sized dummies were apparently not legally required until around 2012 [1]. How many women (and children or short men!) were injured or even died because a group of male automobile executives deemed male-sized dummies to be sufficient as a universal standard? [1] http://leevinsel.com/blog/2013/12/30/why-carmakers-always-insisted-on-male-crash-test-dummies http://leevinsel.com/blog/2013/12/30/why-carmakers-always-in...