The challenge is to remove the obstacles that discourage girls and women from getting involved in designing and inventing technology.
Smaller groups tend to restrict themselves to advocacy, fund-raising and organizing volunteers; much larger associations sometimes get involved in design, planning and construction of improvements.
The aim of Mr Muñoz's company and others like it is to go a step further and to get involved in design and development.If they succeed, they stand to gain some of the investment that American manufacturers are expected to make, as they shift work closer to home in reaction to rising costs in China.
In the case of JK Rowling, you get involved in designing the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando, the latest attraction in the Florida theme-park capital.
In fact, I have a small group, maybe 10% of each graduating class, who are trying to get involved in designing seminar courses that deal with how people learn and to change how STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] education is provided.
That men are getting involved in home-design decisions also may add to the tension.
"It's all due to the commission not focusing on its mission and getting involved in the minutiae of design". Ellinger could not be reached for comment.
He said there had been complaints that the commission was "getting involved in the minutiae of design". He denied that the replacement of Ellinger and Salazar was politically motivated.
Along the way, Thorpe has searched for another outlet for his talents, dabbling in jewellery and underwear design and getting involved in several failed business ventures.
In an email to The Huffington Post, Reed, who rose to fame as head of the Christian Coalition only to be tripped up in a scandal over his association with disgrace lobbyist Jack Abramoff, said he has no designs of getting involved in the next White House race.
