When the “Barbie” movie marketing says “she’s everything,” Nalini Nadkarni is one of those people who helped make that literally true.
, professor emerita of biology at the University of Utah, recently took a trip to the Pacific Northwest — a combined trip for research, visiting friends and making her annual solo backpacking adventure.
Barbie drives her pink Corvette out of BarbieLand, with Ken as a stowaway, in director Greta Gerwig's "Barbie," based on the iconic Mattel doll. “I simply wanted to show little girls that being curious about and exploring forest canopies with a crossbow, ropes, helmet and instructional booklet about canopy plants is a possibility for grownups,” Nadkarni said.
The dismissal, she said, said less about Mattel than it did about consumers. “I think that society was in a different ‘state’ than it is now,” Nadkarni said. “There were fewer young girls who felt an inclination toward a professional career in field science.”
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