Barbie is bad for the future career girls

Barbie Doll, as it turns out, can destroy the career ambitions of women. The researchers found that playing with this doll girl very narrowly imagine what a woman's ability to work.

Barbie doll

Sexy figure Barbie dolls   and her pretty face a negative effect on the psychology of girls who play with her. In particular, it deals with how girls evaluate their career opportunities. By this curious conclusion was reached by researchers from Oregon State University in the United States. During the experiment, they gave 37 girls aged 4 to 7 years old to play with dolls Barbie.

Part Barbie dolls   They were traditional women of fashion, some dressed in costumes of doctors, and the control group of girls played with less attractive doll for 10 minutes. Then all the girls showed pictures of representatives of 10 professions and asked them to answer what kind of work they could do in their adult life. The same question was asked and the group of boys the same age.

As a result, those girls that play with traditional glamor and fashion Barbie opted for the much less potential professions than girls of the two other groups, as well as boys. But the girls from the third group, who played with the usual and not too beautiful doll, were ready to deal with exactly the same number of jobs as well as boys.

"Perhaps in advertising" Barbie could be anyone, "but in real life, playing in her girls did not see for themselves as possible - said study author Aurora Sherman. - These dolls, it seems too early to fix in the minds of the girls identified gender barriers related to future career. " (READ MORE)

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