Sometime in early 2013, a few of the engineers at Fiskars---maker of the world’s most ubiquitous orange scissors in addition to gardening and pruning gear---noticed a discrepancy. “We always do our ...

Even when all other factors are equal, women have 40 percent less upper-body strength than men. So how do you design garden tools that can be used with equal satisfaction by a 30-year-old man and his ...