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Im a Barbie Girlin a CS World
Pamela FoxIgnite Sydney 2010
 
The Next Barbie
 A few weeks ago, Mattel created an online vote for an incredibly important question: theprofession of the next Barbie doll. They included computer engineer barbie as an option,which pretty much guaranteed that the entire online world would vote for that option.
 
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ews of the vote spread virally -through Reddit, Digg, Twitter, and even our internalGoogle mailing lists. Well, obviously, we won the vote, and we probably only hacked it alittle bit. So now, Mattel just had to figure out what Computer Engineerbarbiewould looklike.

I’m a Barbie Girl in a CS World

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kathleenleft a comment

this is how i feel living/working in silicon valley. :p
09 / 20 / 2011
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Helen Winslow Blackleft a comment

That's it! I'm starting a collection! Love this Pamela. Have to confess I needed to open it up to figure out what "CS world" was. Okay now you know where I'm comin' from...
07 / 22 / 2011
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Hansa_Malpathak_8221left a comment

Brilliant.so true. Its sad tho i had to go thru the same thing when i was studying to be an aircraft engineer! Stereotypes suck. The most common question on a monday was "what did you do on your weekend?-Shopping"...My answer was" No I don't ENJOY shopping ".. i mean wtf???!!!
04 / 17 / 2010
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willowsarahleft a comment

Love it!!!!!!!!
03 / 26 / 2010
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deemanatorleft a comment

Love this presentation. Pamela, your honesty about your purchase of vintage gaming shirts to gain geek cred and the slide of you with sauce on your face are so endearing. We're all just a little weird after all, and fitting in can be tough. Glad to see that Barbie may actually be breaking down some of the barriers for the ladies of CS.
03 / 21 / 2010
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