[Womoz] Barbie will be a computer engineer

[Thierry Noisette]

I didn't resist the temptation to write a quick article about it:

La poupée Barbie sera informaticienne... et utilise Linux
(http://www.zdnet.fr/blogs/l-esprit-libre/la-poupee-barbie-sera-informaticienne-et-utilise-linux-39713313.htm)


Thierry Noisette a écrit :
> As the vote was quite debated in the list: apparently, there were enough 
> geeks and geekettes (does the word work in English or is it just 
> "French" English?) to vote for that choice ;-)
> 
> http://www.barbie.com/vote/
> 
> And she's using Linux !
> 
>  >
> 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.
>  >
> 
> (http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Barbie-Mattel-Barbie-Computer-Engineer,news-5835.html) 
> 
> 
> As my daughter has never been at all interested in dolls, too bad, but 
> for some other girls it might be a cute gift - IMHO.
> 
> Thierry
> (Paris)
>