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Article: Barbie goes digital, girls get online.(computer games for girls on the rise)(includes related article on the cost of connecting to Internet)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- May 11, 1998
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Still sporting an invisible waist and double D bust, Barbie plays the lead role in what may be the first successful computer games just for girls.
Finally, a computer game for girls. But, to the chagrin of feminists, it's designed around Barbie, the hour glass-shaped doll with measurements no mortal could match.
Although computers have become increasingly popular--almost a necessity--computer games typically are designed for and marketed to boys. Girls are excluded at an age in which their computer knowledge is just budding, argues Roberta Furger in her new book, Does Jane Compute? As a result, they fall behind their male counterparts.
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