{"id":3161,"date":"2018-08-08T06:22:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T06:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=3161"},"modified":"2021-04-12T06:30:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T06:30:30","slug":"dear-mattel-we-think-these-5-women-should-be-the-next-barbie-sheroes","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/dear-mattel-we-think-these-5-women-should-be-the-next-barbie-sheroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Mattel, We Think These 5 Women Should Be The Next Barbie Sheroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width wp-image-3162 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/04\/37405326_216505749047824_5762267800945033216_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Barbie launched its Ibtihaj Muhammad doll, honouring the fencing champion who was the first Muslim-American woman to wear a hijab while competing. Ibtihaj is the latest addition to Mattel\u2019s \u2018Sheroes\u2019, a collection of dolls celebrating powerful female role models with artist Frida Kahlo and model\/activist Ashley Graham amongst its impressive line-up. This got the\u00a0<em>Grazia<\/em> team thinking about our own nominations, so here are our Sheroes &#8211; the women we want to see honoured in this way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width wp-image-3163 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/04\/Raha-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"630\" \/><strong>Raha Moharrak<\/strong><br \/>\nMountaineer and<em>\u00a0Grazia<\/em>\u00a0Girl Gang Ambassador Raha Moharrak is the youngest Arab and first Saudi woman to scale the seven summits &#8211; including the foreboding Mount Everest. Even more impressive, the adventurer trained herself for the climbs. Barbie is long overdue some walking boots and an ice pick, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width wp-image-3164 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/04\/37775403_658963021169457_669383799976493056_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"740\" \/><strong>Huda Kattan<\/strong><br \/>\nSavvy CEO and company founder Huda Kattan built her beauty empire from the ground. Starting out with a simple blog, her social channels soon gained a cult following prompting the entrepreneur to launch her first lash line. Now she\u2019s at the helm of a multi-million dollar business and tops Instagram\u2019s rich list. That\u2019s what we call business sense!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width wp-image-3165 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/04\/33989965_392149397931851_7868255631004663808_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"740\" \/><strong>Caitlin Moran<\/strong><br \/>\nAward-winning journalist and author Caitlin Moran doesn\u2019t skirt around issues \u2013 breaking taboo after taboo, the writer tackles topics like femininity and womanhood head on. Often frank, always honest, her humour and wit have seen us chuckle and nod in agreement many a time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width wp-image-3166 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/04\/Manal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"528\" \/><strong>Manal Al-Sharif<\/strong><br \/>\nWomen\u2019s rights activist, Manal Al-Sharif, helped start \u2018Women2Drive\u2019 and began campaigning for women\u2019s right to drive in Saudi Arabia back in 2011. The ban on women driving was finally lifted in June 2018, and Manal is still working for the liberation of women; she has also penned her first novel,\u00a0<em>Dare to Drive: A Saudi Woman\u2019s Awakening<\/em>, a memoir of her journey.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width wp-image-3167 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/04\/8038220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"740\" \/><strong>Aisha Al Mansoori<\/strong><br \/>\nAisha Al Mansoori is the UAE\u2019s first female to pilot an A380 plane \u2013 that\u2019s the largest passenger jet in the world! After falling in love with aviation at the 2007 Al Ain Air show she joined Etihad the following year as a cadet, now years later there are few places she has yet to fly. This Barbie would have ambition and drive aplenty!<\/p>\n<p><em>Photos: Supplied and Instagram @in_the_barbie_world, @hudabeauty, @mscaitlinmoran, @ les_glorieuses<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28819,"featured_media":3162,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[260],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dear Mattel, We Think These 5 Women Should Be The Next Barbie Sheroes - Grazia Middle East<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/dear-mattel-we-think-these-5-women-should-be-the-next-barbie-sheroes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dear Mattel, We Think These 5 Women Should Be The Next Barbie Sheroes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last week, Barbie launched its Ibtihaj Muhammad doll, honouring the fencing champion who was the first Muslim-American woman to wear a hijab while competing. 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