Why 'engineering Barbie's' pink washing machine defeats the point

The doll’s new incarnation sets out to overcome gender stereotypes – before falling for them hook, line and sinker. But it’s just the latest in a long line of similar failures“Math class is tough,” declared Barbie in 1992, prompting a backlash from the American Association of University Women and a swift adjustment to the toy’s verbal repertoire. It wasn’t the first time the unrealistically proportioned doll had attracted criticisms of sexism, and it wou