Diverse Barbie dolls on display at the"World of Barbie" exhibition in Santa Monica, California, on June 28, 2023. Mattel points to the diversity of its Barbie dolls as one of their positive attributes.A program giving free Barbie dolls to 150,000 primary school children in the U.K. has been branded “alarming” by experts, who warned it risks teaching gender stereotypes.
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