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 ...

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 ...

Computer Engineer Barbie debuted to much fanfare, but most girls voted for Mattel’s flagship doll to be a news anchor. Eve Tahmincioglu, writing for MSNBC, uses the Barbie vote disparity to explore ...

Barbie landed her first gig as a teenage fashion model in 1959. Since then she's been an astronaut, a surgeon and a presidential candidate. Her latest career choice? Computer engineer.

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 ...

According to Mattel no; because she is a girl she still needs the boys to help with those things called computers. In January 2010 Mattel Inc decided Barbie – formally known as Barbara Millicent ...

Barbie has been a computer engineer for four years now, and according to Mattel and publisher Random House the “I Can Be a Computer Engineer” book amid the firestorm was also released in 2010. Since ...

Toy maker Mattel has given Barbie, an iconic fashion doll since 1959, a new career -- this time as a computer engineer . Sign up here. For the first time, the company took an online vote, asking ...

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 ...