Dockterman is a correspondent at TIME. She covers culture, society, and gender, including topics from blockbuster movies to the #MeToo movement to how the pandemic pushed moms out of the workplace. I ...

The women behind those immaculate (and immaculately pink) Barbie sets are setting the record straight. No, they didn’t cause a global shortage of pink paint by splurging on so much for Barbie Land.

The old-school Barbie world was filled with unrealistic representations: physically impossible body proportions, extremely high heel arches and an amazingly ostentatious house (probably hard to afford ...