Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945, noticed her daughter, Barbara, playing with paper dolls and dreaming about what kind of woman she ...

teacher and singer. Over 20 years after the original Barbie was introduced to the market, Mattel released the African-American Barbie and Ken dolls in 1980. Though there had been an African ...

Inside the biggest change in barbie’s 57-year history–and what it says about American beauty ideals Part 1 Barbie’s dress won’t fit. I’m sitting in a bright pink room at Mattel’s ...

You have to do that in independent film.” Mattel has capitalized on “Barbie’s” success, announcing more than a dozen film and TV projects. It enlisted Travis Knight, a director known for ...

Mattel, the toy company that makes Barbie, Uno and Hot Wheels toys, has announced a round of layoffs from their corporate ...

Mattel, the toymaker behind the “Most Diverse Doll Line” and a blockbuster Barbie movie trumpeting diversity, is talking less ...

Toy company Mattel revealed its first Barbie doll representing a person with Down’s syndrome on Tuesday. Mattel collaborated with the US-based National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) to create the ...