Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Are dolls good for girls?
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Are dolls good for girls?
Kim Chakanetsa speaks to a psychologist and a doll maker to discuss the impact of playing with toys on the brain.
Dr Lisa Dinella is an expert on how toys influence the child’s brain, their sense of self and even the opportunities they have in later life. She is a professor of psychology in America’s Monmouth University and has given an address in the White House on gender disparities in children’s media and toys.
Sunaina Somu Divakar is the founder of a doll company that aims to challenge stereotypes and bring more representation to the Indian toy market. In 2020, influenced by the Black Lives Matter movement and becoming a mother, Sunaina founded Wild Little Society, a company that sells dolls with a range of different brown skin tones and outfits.
Produced by Sarah Kendal.
(Image: (L) Dr Lisa Dinella, credit Andrew Beldowicz. (R) Sunaina Somu Divakar, credit Balamurali Gurusamy.)
View all episodes
By BBC World Service
4.5
6969 ratings
Kim Chakanetsa speaks to a psychologist and a doll maker to discuss the impact of playing with toys on the brain.
Dr Lisa Dinella is an expert on how toys influence the child’s brain, their sense of self and even the opportunities they have in later life. She is a professor of psychology in America’s Monmouth University and has given an address in the White House on gender disparities in children’s media and toys.
Sunaina Somu Divakar is the founder of a doll company that aims to challenge stereotypes and bring more representation to the Indian toy market. In 2020, influenced by the Black Lives Matter movement and becoming a mother, Sunaina founded Wild Little Society, a company that sells dolls with a range of different brown skin tones and outfits.
Produced by Sarah Kendal.
(Image: (L) Dr Lisa Dinella, credit Andrew Beldowicz. (R) Sunaina Somu Divakar, credit Balamurali Gurusamy.)
More shows like The Conversation
View all
Global News Podcast
7,913 Listeners
Business Daily
523 Listeners
Newshour
1,067 Listeners
In Our Time
5,576 Listeners
The Documentary Podcast
1,808 Listeners
6 Minute English
1,729 Listeners
Learning English Conversations
1,018 Listeners
The Infinite Monkey Cage
1,952 Listeners
Learning English Vocabulary
503 Listeners
Learning English Stories
368 Listeners
Real English Conversations Podcast – Real English for Global Professionals | Speak Clearly & Confidently at Work
383 Listeners
RealLife English: Learn and Speak Confident, Natural English
453 Listeners
Learning English Grammar
311 Listeners
Learning English from the News
238 Listeners
You're Dead to Me
3,245 Listeners
Americast
779 Listeners
The Bomb
1,010 Listeners
The British English Podcast
64 Listeners
Thinking in English
106 Listeners
What in the World
23 Listeners
Learning English For Work
41 Listeners
Learning Easy English
101 Listeners