She's been a swimsuit cover model and a human trafficking victim, but Barbie has never really been touted as a working professional. The latest affront to basic decency in gendered toy marketing comes ...

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 ...

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 ...

An alternative to the Barbie book "I Can Be a Computer Engineer" Emily Behlmann / WBJ To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser ...

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.