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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Casey Fiesler poses with two new Robotics Engineer Barbies. She consulted with toymaker Mattel on a book that accompanies the dolls and explains the basics of coding. When toymaker Mattel introduced ...

That woman was the book’s author, Susan Marenco. Marenco spoke to Kids Tech News (KTN) and ABC News on Wednesday about the experience of waking up Tuesday morning to a deluge of email from outraged ...

Apparently Mattel's products are just so damn bendy that they can't stop putting their foot in their mouth, or at least it seems that way when you take a look at the almost laughably offensive and ...

“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 ...