Barbie Launches Music Producer Dolls to “Spotlight the Gender Hole within the Trade”

With ladies making up lower than 3% of music producer, Barbie has parnered with MTV, Ester Dean & Ladies Make Beats to encourage and empower.

Music Producer Barbie has arrived in 2021, not a second too quickly.

Mattel simply introduced Music Producer as Barbie’s Profession of the Yr as a part of its Dream Gap Project. The ongoing world initiative launched in 2018 as a method to provides women the sources and assist they should proceed believing in themselves.

“With over 200 careers and counting, Barbie is mixing it up as a music producer to point out women extra position fashions on this area and encourage purposeful play via careers they is probably not aware of,” a press launch states.

Lisa McKnight, SVP and International Head of Barbie & Dolls, Mattel shares:

As a part of our ongoing Dream Hole Undertaking, Barbie is devoted to leveling the enjoying discipline for ladies in careers the place ladies are underrepresented, like music producer. By exposing women to inspiring ladies excelling on this position, like Ester Dean, and by highlighting the music producer profession with dolls, Barbie is reminding women of their limitless potential. Our partnership with Girls Make Beats takes our efforts one step additional, championing feminine voices from the studio to the stage and giving women the instruments to assist them pursue a future as a music producer.

Producer/singer/songwriter Ester Dean provides:

I’m honored to lend my voice to Barbie to encourage younger women to be taught extra about turning into a music producer. Whereas feminine voices are heard from the stage, so many crucial choices are made behind the scenes and within the studio. Having been within the trade for over a decade, I’ve witnessed the ability feminine voices can have in shaping the way forward for music manufacturing and need to guarantee extra ladies are within the room.

Barbie will host a reside webinar with Ladies Make Beats and Ester Dean, open to women ages 5-17, in an effort to assist empower future music producers. Extra data and enroll here.

As well as, Barbie and MTV will host an hour-long takeover of MTV’s Saturday Music Video Block to function music hits produced solely by ladies. It occurs on September 18 at 8 AM ET.

Extra on Barbie’s The Dream Hole Undertaking x Ladies Make Beats here.

Store for Music Producer Barbies here.

Photograph Courtesy of Mattel