Other Are men usually the makers and obsessives because of gender stereotypes?

The thing with pink and blue mechano is that it's not being marketed at children its being marketed at adults. After all children are rubbish at generating disposable income. Whilst the child probably doesn't care what sort of thing or colours are on the box the adults probably do.

The point is Mechano aren't trying to encourage stereotypes, they are simply targeting those that already exist. Ignoring the existence of these stereotypes would probably cost them market share and revenue.

 

From a layman's knowledge. They don't. Primarily because of the societal doctrine (wrong term) they grow up. Little girls see other girls playing with dolls on TV, friends will talk about "girly" things and whatever else they observe. The same with boys and whatever stereotypes they are raised to fall into.
Now if there was a control group. Kids never influenced my society, media, their parent. Then I think they would make and draw the same with slight variation due to the neurological differences between the sexes.

An authority on the matter should correct me soon

 

In my very personal, very humble opinion, many young men want to know how things work, while many young women want to know what they can do with it while it works.

Many examples of the opposite can always be found of course.

Many children will discard the toy and play with the box and/or it's wrappings

 

They are colluding with gender stereotypes. But I'm not blaming Meccano or for that matter any toy manufacturer: they simply make what the parents want.

 

FTFY

Surprised nobody has raised this yet. Small boys break stuff. Period.
Leads to a greater incentive (and more practice) to be able to put things back together (or at least to the appearance of unbroken) lest a parent realise and tell them off...

 

I'm just quoting one comment here, but this article is quite relevant to the discussion:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119239/transgender-people-can-explain-why-women-dont-advance-work
Women's intelligence is often questioned for no reason other than that they're women. Women aren't taken as seriously as men in general. I suspect this contributes to the "uncivil workplace climates" as quoted earlier.

 

Hey, I didn't say that!
They do, though, but small girls do so too as I can tell you

I talked about young men and women, as IMHO, children in general don't care HOW something works as long as it does...NOW!
Hence my pet peeve, getting a bought DVD to actually diplay the movie I bought instead of 20 mins of rubbish. (and yes I know the simple solution to that)