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☆ What kind of 'Barbie' are you? Here are the Barbieland jobs that most real-life women hold, according to government data
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Ana Teresa Solá | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

In the "Barbie" movie, the narrator says, "Barbie has a great day every day." As women's participation in the labor force has increased over the years, the group continues to face hurdles along the way. "We have the tightest labor market for women in the past 20-something years," Bustamante said. "As the labor market gets tighter and tighter and tighter, women's employment rises faster than men's," Pollak said. "To think of just the scale of construction employment and women are still such a marginal piece of that sector," he said.

Persons: Margot Robbie, Barbie, Julia Pollak, R, Bustamante, Pollak, " Pollak Organizations: Mattel, Warner Bros, U.S . Bureau of Labor Statistics, Roosevelt Institute, Census, National Women's Law, Warner Brothers Pictures Locations: New York, U.S

☆ I'm Gen X, and my best friend is a boomer. She's helping me through my divorce and models my future for me.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Amy Mchugh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Two decades later, she's still my closest friend — even though she's a boomer and I'm Gen X. She knows I love food and hate food after my mother took me to Weight Watchers when I was 13. AdvertisementNow, she's helping me get through a divorceIn September, my husband of 21 years surprised me with a divorce. I'm comforted by the love she found in a second husband a few years after her divorce. On the long road to divorce recovery, Kathy keeps showing up.

Persons: —, Kathy, Amy, Kathy's, she's, Spaghettios, She's, who've, I'm Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Portuguese, Cape Cod, Fish, Charleston

☆ Oscars Quiz: Test Your Movie Knowledge
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Esther Zuckerman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The Oscars are Sunday. It’s been a busy awards season filled with Barbies and biopics. Now that we’re nearing the end, let’s see how much you know.

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☆ Here's what Barbie looked like the year you were born
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Talia Lakritz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The first Barbie doll hit shelves in 1959, making the iconic toy 65 years old in 2024. The "Barbie" movie, directed by Greta Gerwig, is nominated for eight Oscars. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" movie, which is nominated for eight Academy Awards, has also sparked a renaissance of the doll-inspired Barbiecore aesthetic, which includes vibrant shades of pink, chunky heels, and kitschy accessories. Here's a look at how Barbie dolls have evolved through the years.

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☆ Saoirse Ronan reveals the ‘Barbie’ movie cameo that Greta Gerwig approached her to play
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Kate McKinnon almost wasn’t the only Weird Barbie on the block. Actress Saoirse Ronan said in a new interview that she almost made a cameo in last year’s “Barbie” movie and that she would have, like McKinnon, played a doll who’d survived a bout of overly rambunctious play. In July, when the “Barbie” movie first debuted in theaters, Gerwig first revealed she had approached Ronan and Timothée Chalamet to make “specialty cameos” in the film. Gerwig previously worked with both actors in 2017’s “Lady Bird” and 2019’s “Little Women.”Kate McKinnon as Weird Barbie in the "Barbie" movie. The “Barbie” movie was 2023’s highest-grossing movie, bringing in over $1 billion.

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☆ I grew up in the West Bank under military occupation. Now I pay homage to my homeland through my fashion designs.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Yoonji Han | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThis is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Rami Kashou, a Palestinian American fashion designer. I grew up during the second intifada under the Israeli military occupation. Courtesy of Rami KashouMaking clothes as a kid living in the West BankEven when I was younger, I was fascinated with fashion. AdvertisementIn the West Bank, making your own clothes was a way to be fashionable because we don't have much access to the rest of the world. Draping comes from a culture where women drape themselves in fabric, whether it's a shawl, a veil, or a long dress.

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☆ Saoirse Ronan shares details on her scrapped 'Weird Barbie' cameo: 'I think I'd be the strange girl who talked to herself'
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Eve Crosbie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

She told Variety she was going to play a Barbie "who talked to herself and always had her pet dog." It sounds an awful lot like she was supposed to play the recalled Barbie doll that came with a pooping dog. AdvertisementSaoirse Ronan has shared some details about the "Weird Barbie" role she almost played. "I don't know what he was going to be, but I was definitely going to be a Weird Barbie. Kate McKinnon as Weird Barbie with Tanner the dog in "Barbie."

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☆ I'm Gen X, and my husband is a millennial. We parent very differently.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Kelly Eden | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Watching my husband parent his two young kids very differently from the way I parented my older two has been both eye-opening and confronting. AdvertisementI know I'm doing more than my husband would, but I can't seem to help myself. But when I watched my husband with his kids, my parenting started to look more and more like hovering. I could have eased up and trusted her to do a bit more herself, as my husband does with his kids. He trusts them to figure things outIt's not that my husband leaves his kids to their own devices.

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☆ A 24-year-old spent her summer renovating a rundown cabin on a remote island in Canada. Take a look.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Monica Humphries | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Bri Macdonald spent her summer renovating a cabin on an island in Ontario, Canada. AdvertisementBri Macdonald spent the summer on a remote island on a lake in Ontario. Bri MacdonaldMacdonald said getting to the cabin was an 'adventure'The cabin Macdonald renovated was the only building on the secluded island. But she was working on the cabin project by herself. Bri Macdonald working on the cabin in Ontario, Canada.

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☆ Barbie who? Gen Alpha kids 'obsessed' with skin care could fuel holiday spending
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Gabrielle Fonrouge | In Gabrielle-Fonrouge | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Instead, something unexpected made it to the top of the list this year: skin care. During the crucial holiday shopping season this year, Gen Alpha's fascination with skin care is expected to fuel a boon in sales. Beauty – two brands that have used TikTok to win over young consumers – also said they expect sizable sales this holiday from parents looking for gifts for their Gen Alpha kids. She said her daughter's interest in skin care is "great," and better than playing around with makeup. He coined the term Gen Alpha and is considered a leading expert on the generation.

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We are actually going to be looking at this in the very early days of generative AI. casey newtonYeah, this feels like one of the big questions in AI right now. rebecca tushnetSo I see why you say that’s strange, but in fact, it’s exactly how you would make a general-purpose tool. But now, finally, along come these new technologies to take them down a peg, and they’re actually going to have to work for a living. So maybe they’re slapping, like, AI sort of things around the stories that they’re aggregating.

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☆ 6 years after declaring bankruptcy, Toys R Us will return with 24 stores across the US
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( Sebastian Cahill | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Toys R Us, which went bankrupt years ago, will open up to 24 stores in the US. It was the first big-box toy store ever created, according to History — and a far cry from other toy stores at the time. Using their advertisements, celebrity collaborations, and their mascot Geoffrey the Giraffe, Toys R Us sold thousands of toys like Mr. Its jingle, "I don't want to grow up, I'm a Toys R Us kid. There's a million toys at Toys R Us that I can play with," was the soundtrack for kids from the 1980s to the early 2000s.

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☆ The ‘Barbie’ movie has people buying ‘emotional support’ dolls. Psychologists say that’s a good thing
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Aj Willingham | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —The “Barbie” movie is a bona fide cultural moment. Some videos show people carefully roaming toy aisles to pick out dolls that speak to their careers, identities or just their sense of whimsy. In one popular TikTok, a daughter surprises her mom with a Dia De Muertos Barbie, and no one comes away dry-eyed. Greene thought the idea of an emotional support Barbie was a little silly at first, but she found herself in a Target one weekend and caved. When Flora saw the “Barbie” movie with her daughter, she says nearly the whole audience was decked out in pink, sparkles and sunglasses, bubbling over with excitement.

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☆ 'This is my world': Russia's top Barbie fan sees herself in movie
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

MOSCOW, Aug 25 (Reuters) - As the proud owner of 12,000 Barbie dolls, Russian collector Tatiana Tuzova was more excited than most to watch the Hollywood movie based on her idol. "I want everything in the real world to be as bright, beautiful and glamorous (as Barbie Land). But when you're out in the real world, there are so many things missing." She said she liked the fact that the Barbie heroine of the film remained true to herself even when she crossed into the real world. She just adapted, let's say, to the real world - as, in general, I did."

Persons: Barbie, Tatiana Tuzova, Maxim Shemetov, Margot Robbie, Tuzova, didn't, Mark Trevelyan, Angus MacSwan Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Army, Air Force, Thomson Locations: Krasnogorsk, Moscow, Russia, Ukraine, MOSCOW

☆ An artist used AI to put Barbie in the internet's weirdest memes and moments — check out the darkly subversive images
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Pieke Roelofs used AI-image generator Dream by Wombo to create Barbie memes and reaction posts. The Dutch artist started prompting it to weigh in on trending topics she saw on her X feed. Dutch artist Pieke Roelofs used an AI tool to generate dozens of images of Barbie in unusual scenarios. "I was constantly spammed on my feed with Barbie because of the release of the movie and at that point, I decided to prompt an AI tool to create Barbie memes and reaction images." Take a look at some of Roelofs' AI-generated Barbie memes and reaction images.

Persons: Pieke Roelofs, Wombo, Barbie, Roelofs, I've, Elon Musk, she's, I'm Organizations: Elon Locations: Dutch

☆ Opinion | Margot Robbie’s Sly Interpretation of the Feminine Ideal
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In particular, I continue to marvel at the performance of Margot Robbie, who played the titular heroine — Stereotypical Barbie — and who I think isn’t getting enough credit for holding the movie together. She must journey to the real world, leaving an army of other Barbies behind, to get back to a state of unquestioning bliss. She grudgingly takes Ken (a perfectly doltish Ryan Gosling) with her, and in the real world he discovers the concept of patriarchy. A movie called “Barbie,” and Barbie didn’t always feel like the main character. I also kept thinking about Robbie as Stereotypical Barbie.

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☆ In Barbie lore, Allan was actually the father of pregnant Midge's unborn baby
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In "Barbie," Allan appears as a kind but lonely man who just wants to hang out with the Kens and Barbies. But in Mattel lore, Allan was actually married to Midge and had two children with the doll, despite him not interacting with her in the movie. A few months later, in early 1964, the toy company began producing a red-haired boyfriend for Midge, Allan Sherwood, named for Handler's son-in-law. "Allan shares wonderful adventures with Barbie and her friends," including going on double dates as Midge's partner with Barbie and Ken, a advert from 1964 proclaimed. Allan was the same size as Ken, meaning that he could share his clothes, as was the case with Barbie and Midge.

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☆ The Future of Rap Is Female
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Niela Orr | Photographs Adrienne Raquel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

The Future of Rap Is Female As their male counterparts turn depressive and paranoid, it’s the women who are having all the fun. In the mid-’80s, the dynamics shifted slightly, when UTFO released “Roxanne, Roxanne,” a comical torch song dissing a woman who rejected the men’s advances. Like good sex, raunchy rap is only fun if all parties are completely enthusiastic, and this music provides necessary female perspectives to match what the men make. In Miami one weekend in late July, Rolling Loud, one of the biggest annual hip-hop festivals, made itself into a microcosm of the rap world. There’s a relentless gender pessimism in the air, too — on the street, on dating apps, in the Supreme Court and, of course, in rap music.

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☆ The Toughest ‘Barbie’ Critics Are Barbie Collectors
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Esther Zuckerman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Before going to see “Barbie,” the doll collector Laura Maar had reservations. “By the second time, though, I really did love it,” said Maar, 49, a kindergarten teacher in Southern California. But collectors like Maar were fans of Barbie long before. I spoke with 10 collectors — many of whom showed up for our video interviews wearing hot pink Barbie merch with their dolls proudly on display — to find out: Did the film pass muster with this most demanding group of fans? “I was so pleased there were so many nods to longtime Barbie fans.”

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☆ New York woman Barbara Lakin restores old Barbies for migrant girls
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Alaa Elassar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

New York CNN —Barbara Lakin sits on a bus in New York City, her fingers busy sewing blue thread into a tiny dress. On the seat beside her, six disheveled Barbie dolls stick out of her backpack. Cory CurtinUsing old Barbies she buys or donated dolls, Lakin, a New Yorker living in the East Village, restores the toys as gifts for the children. In March, the organization also opened the Little Shop of Kindness, where the migrants can shop for free and young migrant girls can receive the Barbies. This way, she can donate matching Barbie dolls and shirts to father-and-daughter duos who come to the store.

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☆ Greta Gerwig got a ‘Barbie’ flash mob from Ryan Gosling for her birthday
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Ryan Gosling knew just what to get his “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig for her birthday. According to the movie’s verified Instagram account, the actor, who portrayed Ken in the hit film, sent Gerwig a flash mob in honor of her special day. “Ken Ryan sent these special Barbies and Kens to start Greta’s birthday with all the feelings! !”Greta Gerwig and Ryan Gosling at the premiere of "Barbie" held at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on July 9, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. At the end the group yelled, “Happy birthday, Greta!”Gerwig, appeared to get emotional, called it “beautiful” and gave out hugs to the flash mob members.

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☆ Mattel 'Weird Barbie' doll for sale for limited time
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Eva Rothenberg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Some might say Weird Barbies are made, not sold. Mattel, however, begs to differ. The toy company behind the iconic Barbie brand has announced a signature doll modeled after Kate McKinnon’s character from Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster “Barbie.” In the movie, McKinnon’s character helps send Margot Robbie’s Barbie on her journey. “Barbie” is produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, which is owned by CNN’s parent company Warner Bros. The doll is one of seven products in an expanded collection stemming from the billion-dollar hit movie, including various Barbie and Ken dolls modeling outfits they wore on-screen and a Hot Wheels corvette set.

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☆ I'm a Barbie girl who almost got tricked by a plastic-free hoax
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Catherine Boudreau | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A fake campaign by environmental activists said Barbie-maker Mattel would go plastic-free by 2030. Outlets like People, The Washington Times , and Dow Jones Newswires reported that Mattel, the maker of Barbie and other toys like American Girl dolls and Hot Wheels, would go plastic-free by 2030. "With our plastic-free commitment, we denounce the empty promises of plastic recycling and take a bold step towards real ecological sustainability. By the end of the day, Yahoo News had the exclusive on the team behind the stunt : The Barbie Liberation Organization. The stunt did make me envision what seaweed Barbie would look like — but it's unclear if that's possible.

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☆ I took a chance and wrote my college essay about wanting to be like Barbie. I was accepted into one of the world's top film schools.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Lauren Trippeer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

When I wrote my college-admissions essay, I took a risk and wrote: "I want to be like Barbie." I thought about what I liked; I liked film. Barbie chose all of her dreams, and through pursuing film as a career, I could too. With help from Barbie, I consistently chose it all, and through film, I could bring my ballerina-astronaut dreams to life. Now, two years later, I'm entering my sophomore year of studying film and television production at Chapman University, one of the world's top film schools.

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☆ Mattel Needs Barbie’s Movie Magic to Lift Toy Sales
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Ngai Yeung | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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