Toy maker Mattel has given Barbie, an iconic fashion doll since 1959, a new career -- this time as a computer engineer . Sign up here. For the first time, the company took an online vote, asking ...

Barbie made two very successful tours as a flight attendant during the 1960s, and in 1999 she paid the mortgage on her dream house as a competent commercial airline pilot. She’s also taken on the role ...