By Lin Taylor
LONDON, Jan 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – 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, in a Skype interview.
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 from Poland.
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.
