We are excited to make this announcement! Following is the press release from January 1, 2017. Purple and Nine are excited to announce The ThinkTank Emporium as the exclusive Licensing Agent for their media properties in the US and Canada. TTE will represent all licensing rights including media/entertainment globally. Purple and Nine™ star in a…
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“You have to find the men in tech with daughters,” she said. “The women won’t help you. I hate to say it, but it’s true.” My company is all about creating better media for girls (when I say “better”, I mean better than Barbie and the Power Puff Girls.). You’d think women, in particular, moms,…
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Gangly Sister is looking for a marketing co-founder. We value enthusiasm over experience. Following is everything you need to know. To apply, send an email to rebecca@ganglysister.com telling us why you are The One, and the URL of your LinkedIn and other social media profiles. If you don’t have social media profiles, you aren’t the…
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Everyone is so excited about the new “game developer” Barbie, but it just makes me sick. First of all, of course she’s a game developer, because every other profession in engineering and coding “sounds boring.” Heaven forbid she should be doing something boring like developing an algorithm to analyze the outbreak of disease, creating an…
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Sometimes encouraging Girls in STEM can be difficult, but most days it’s great fun for us at Gangly Sister. Running a virtual company can get lonely, so every now and again our fearless leaders, myself and Ofer, get together for a little fun. If you’ve watched our pilot episode, you know that Purple and Nine…
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We’re looking to hire a comic book artist, and it’s totally different than any other type of hire I’ve made in the past. The best hires I’ve made in my career have been people with the right attitude rather than a specific skill set, so it surprised me when our Creative Director, Ofer, said that…
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The studies on whether STEM initiatives for girls really help are few, but a recent study suggests that, no, intervention does not work. The numbers would support that. After all, for decades, various institutions have been supporting programs to get girls interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, but the numbers are not growing. On…
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Lately, the news has been filled with articles about how women are being featured in advertisements, girls are being featured in comic books, and are getting attention in Hollywood. We love to hear this kind of news for two reasons. It’s about time. Females make up half the people and it’s about time we started seeing…
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“What bothers me is that a woman could never do what he does,” said one of my female CEO friends. “Imagine if a woman manager took a selfie every morning as she was leaving the house,” she added, demonstrating some of the poses that are regularly displayed on the pages of one of the top…
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