Barbie is a Computer Geek

That’s it.  The last frontier has been crossed. Computer geeks are under siege and will now have a new leader: Barbie! She has chosen her new career as a Computer Engineer and my inner geek applauds.

When I saw the actual doll, I was disappointed by the whole pink thingy laptop and glasses. Why do we have to gimmick everything with pink ! And when was the last time you saw a women past her 20′s wearing pink? Maybe Barbie should focus on dropping the color pink for a year… that might help girls take her career wise more seriously!

This is her 125th career since 1959 and a big leap since her 1963 babysitter days. The project is backed up by non profit organization The White House Project and Take your Daughters to Work Foundation. No small change here. And she has chosen 10 Women to watch in 2010 among which is MacArthur Fellow Yoky Matsuoka who has top science degrees from Berkeley and MIT,  and is educating others in the emerging field of neurobotics at the University of Washington.

The full list of barbie’s career is fascinating. Even tough she seems out of touch with reality in some cases: Rockstar or Sea world trainer ; forget the Cheerleader career… is it even a career?  Perhaps  Barbie was more driven in the 90s when she wanted to be a paleontologist, an astronaut and a Pediatrician … We will try to forget her lifeguard / wannabe Baywatch attempt in 1994. She might be human after all

All that being said, she did break a few milestones by going to space four years before man walked on the moon as an astronaut. In the 80′s she walked with her chin up in the Boardroom years befor melanie Griffith did so in Working Girl. And even better, she ran for President, in the 90s before any female candidate ever made it onto the presidential ballot. So drop the pink and the Barbie Surfer Mermaid, but keep up the good work.

Anyone knows what Ken’s doing these days?