| Anyway, the winner was News Anchor Barbie. However, Mattel says the
Website was flooded with votes from women in the tech industry, and of
course, pretty much every female software engineer on the planet.
ChipChick cites Lauren Dougherty, director of Barbie marketing for
Mattel, who says voting for Engineer Barbie became viral amongst female
engineers; it was because this popular vote went to Computer Engineer
Barbie, that Mattel couldn’t resist but to reward Barbie with a 126th
career choice too.
Barbie and her dual monitor set-up with laptop (pink) running
Linux, geeky binary t-shirt, smartphone, Bluetooth headset and of
course, glasses, will hit the shelves Winter 2010. I've heard on the
grapevine that you can pre-order so I'm currently trawling the Mattel
store for the goods but I'm not having any luck so far. |
