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,” ...

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 ...

That’s right kids, Jeff just sent us an email tip that Barbie’s next career has been announced, and we won: But that’s not all! Consumers loudly campaigned for another Barbie career. The winner of the ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

“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 ...

(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 ...

Those architects who reside on Mars may have missed the most riveting competition to engage the profession this year, and if so let me bring you up to date: it was the possibility that on-line voters ...

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 ...

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 ...