Can Playing with a Barbie Doll Impact a Young Girl’s Career Aspirations?
By Tharuni Jayaraman In a recent study that has created some buzz (The Guardian, The Boston Globe, and The Atlantic), researchers Aurora Sherman and Eileen Zurbriggen investigated whether playing with a Barbie doll for just five minutes could affect a girl’s belief in the type of career she could pursue. To test their hypothesis, they…