The 2010 book Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer was highly criticized this week; it shows Barbie designing a game, but relying on male friends... After Backlash, Computer Engineer Barbie Gets New ...

Barbie’s gone geek and she’s all about the binary. Earlier this month, Mattel announced that Barbie’s new career would be none other than a computer-science engineer. With sparkly black leggings and a ...

From the “Don’t You Wish This Happened In Reality Dept.” comes the news that Mattel’s Barbie, evidently tiring of her careers as “babysitter, cowgirl, ballerina and ambassador for world peace,” ...

Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to introduce the newest member of our IT department: Computer Engineer Barbie. She’s hip, stylish, and a real whiz when it comes to fixing faulty motherboards. All right ...

Some of us have resisted Barbie, for her unrealistic shape, her materialistic ways (a Ferrari?) and her dopey boyfriend but the new Barbie has a good job, dumped Ken, and is trying to be a role model ...

NEW YORK (ABC News) -- Barbie has been an astronaut and a doctor, but when it comes to computer programming, she seems to need a man's help, at least according to a children's book criticized by many ...

(USA TODAY) -- Sure, Barbie. You may be an astronaut, an entrepreneur and a doctor. But if you want to be a computer engineer, it looks like you're gonna need to call in some male backup, according to ...

“Here’s an idea,” I told Sapna Cheryan. “How about ‘Resist! Barbie’?” She comes fitted with clenched fists for fighting off “grabbers” and bendable knees that fit squarely into the crotch of whoever ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Hard-working Barbie is adding two more careers to her long resume -- news anchor and computer engineer. The two new ventures for the world's most popular fashion doll ...

Barbie made two very successful tours as a flight attendant during the 1960s, and in 1999 she paid the mortgage on her dream house as a competent commercial airline pilot. She’s also taken on the role ...

Women in the technology field have faced all manner of insults, including, most recently, GamerGate, which highlighted sexism and harassment in video game culture. This week, another insult — from a ...