For a historical perspective, LEGO's gender policy in advertising and product development seemed to swing around every 5 Years or so in the 70s. http://thinkin

For a historical perspective, LEGO's gender policy in advertising and product development seemed to swing around every 5 Years or so in the 70s. http://thinkingbrickly.blogspot.de/2012/01/lego-gender-gap.html http://thinkingbrickly.blogspot.de/2012/01/lego-gender-gap.h... Compare this to the still great and gender encompassingly written, but still clearly gendered approch from '74 to introduce the homemaker line: http://helpemptymyattic.co.uk/vintage-lego-little-girls-think-big-leaflet-catalogue-1974 http://helpemptymyattic.co.uk/vintage-lego-little-girls-thin... http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?C=c74ukhom http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?C=c74ukhom funnily enough the now internet famous introductory text was always cited out of it's context: http://io9.com/these-lego-instructions-from-1974-are-awesome-and-yes-1662169567 http://io9.com/these-lego-instructions-from-1974-are-awesome... There was another version other of the same year clearly aimed at boys (sorry only dutch version here). [1] Correction, its actually quite generic and very inclusive/neutral compared to the 1976 UK version [2] [1a] http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?q=97875 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?q=97875 [1b] http://worldbricks.com/fr/my-instructions/download/file.html?fid=87.4017 http://worldbricks.com/fr/my-instructions/download/file.html... [pdf] [2]http://worldbricks.com/en/my-instructions/download/file.html?fid=87.4025 http://worldbricks.com/en/my-instructions/download/file.html... [pdf]