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Here is from their website:

The Vote Is In: Barbie® Unveils Her 125th and 126th Careers

For the first time ever, Barbie® asked the world to help her select her next career. Over the past few months Barbie® did research around the world and also conducted an online voting campaign, calling upon the world to vote for her doll’s next career – Barbie® has asked her Twitter followers and fans on Facebook to help her with this important career decision.


But that’s not all! Consumers loudly campaigned for another Barbie® career. The winner of the popular vote is Computer Engineer. Computer Engineer Barbie®, debuting in Winter 2010, inspires a new generation of girls to explore this important high-tech industry, which continues to grow and need future female leaders.


“All the girls who imagine their futures through Barbie will learn that engineers — like girls — are free to explore infinite possibilities, limited only by their imagination,” says Nora Lin, President, Society of Women Engineers. “As a computer engineer, Barbie will show girls that women can turn their ideas into realities that have a direct and positive impact on people’s everyday lives in this exciting and rewarding career.”


To create an authentic look, Barbie® designers worked closely with the Society of Women Engineers and the National Academy of Engineering to develop the wardrobe and accessories for Computer Engineer Barbie®. Wearing a binary code patterned tee and equipped with all the latest gadgets including a smart phone, Bluetooth headset, and laptop travel bag, Computer Engineer Barbie® is geek chic.

steppenwulf wrote:

Interesting... I support it. I've found it a stereotype (at least around here) that girls, for some reason, cannot enter the technological field without being called a geek. I think Barbie's new might encourage more girls to enter the technological field even if they are called geeks.

I agree. 

Lol

I read about that too. I am not sure that it will appeal to the target market (young girls) because a computer engineer isn't something that they can identify with.

Is there a Physicist Barbie yet? 

it looks ok but i wanna se her as a video game designer 

steppenwulf wrote:

Interesting... I support it. I've found it a stereotype (at least around here) that girls, for some reason, cannot enter the technological field without being called a geek, so many of them shy away from it. I think Barbie's new might encourage more girls to enter the technological field even if they are called geeks.

They made an African American Barbie doll and it was called the "Chocolate Barbie." A few days later, it got pulled off the market. 

iamrpk wrote:

RHY3756547 wrote:

Lol

Lucario621 wrote:

Lol...

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... *yawns*