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Women trying to disrupt male-dominated industries of design engineering and sex toys

New York, Aug 20 (UNI) In US, young women are trying to disrupt the male-dominated industries of design engineering and sex toys.
According to a report by Anna Northaug in "The New York Times", making sex toys started as a bit of a joke for Janet Lieberman. In 2013, she was living in Brooklyn and getting ready to leave MakerBot, where she worked as an engineer. When people asked her what she planned to do next, she’d say she wanted to start a sex toy company. She noticed that women never laughed. Instead, they told stories about their sex lives. “Sex is this topic that’s really important to people, but they’re not allowed to talk about it,” said Ms. Lieberman, 32.
Seeing an opportunity, she teamed up with Alexandra Fine, another Brooklyn-based entrepreneur, to start Dame Products. They designed two vibrators, the Fin and the Eva. Since then, the company has gotten widespread media attention, and broken down barriers: Last year, Dame became the first company to receive funding through Kickstarter for a sex toy.

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