barbie the worlds most iconic doll is venturing into coding skills in her latest career as a robotics engineerthe new doll launched on tuesday aims to encourage girls as young as seven to learn real coding skills thanks to a partnership with the kids gamebased computing platform tynker toymaker mattel saidrobotics engineer barbie dressed in jeans a graphic tshirt denim jacket and wearing safety glasses comes with six free barbieinspired coding lessons designed to teach logic problem solving and the building blocks of codingthe lessons show girls for example how to build robots get them to move at a dance party or do jumping jacksaccording to us department of commerce statistics only 24 percent of stem science technology engineering math jobs were held by women in 2017barbie has held more than 200 careers in her almost 60year life including president video game developer and astronauttynker cofounder krishna vedati said in a statement that the companys mission to empower youth worldwide made barbie an ideal partner to help us introduce programming to a large number of kids in a fun engaging way