Don’t worry kids, you can look ridiculous and still get a job in IT!
At last parents everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief as the makers of Barbie have come up with a 'completely new look’ for the fashionable doll which they hope will help to assure young girls that they can overcome a ‘nerdy’ trade stereotype and embrace the life of an IT consultant...
... as long as they dress in vomit inducing outfits, suffer from partial blindness and maintain an unrealistic body shape- well done Mattel (Barbie masterminds).
In an interview with the BBC, a female web designer says:
"It's very much a young man's industry... Women find the need to become quite laddish. You try and become very geeky and not particularly feminine."
...Do they really?
I know several girls who work in IT departments and I have never noticed any of them scratching their crotches and belching for enjoyment.
The outfit donned by the plastic role model is questionable within the realms of taste to say the least but aside from a pair of pink, thick rimmed glasses- presumably an unoriginal attempt to make Barbie look more intelligent, there is no difference to her appearance.
I must however applaud Barbie, acquiring the talent to balance her fabulous pink laptop on her own forearm is a truly remarkable skill.
Unfortunately, the assumption that women who currently work in IT are 'unfashionable', is bold yet insulting, and feeds the very stereotype that they are allegedly striving to overturn.
Ah well, it’s just a toy... right?
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