Do Toy Companies Need More Women At The Top?

Bourree Lam, The Atlantic
Fri, 09/19/2014 - 8:48am

As a little girl, I loved Barbies. But now as an adult, I'm slightly embarrassed by this. My best defense: well, there weren't better girls toys back then. Three decades later, when surveying the toy options for little girls, it doesn't look like that much has changed. Why is the toy aisle frozen in time?

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