[Womoz] Barbie will be a computer engineer

[aleks eric]

"THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR A WO-MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR WO-MANKIND"
:D

2010/2/24, Thierry Noisette <thierry at noisette.net>:
> 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)
>>
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