Association. Stereotyping. Sexism. spells...

As programmers, women already have enough stereotypes to overcome before even getting around to talking about gender. This problem is--of course--not singly inflicting computer science. It's everywhere. The names on women's very own shampoo bottles are not women's names; they're men's. But don't take my word for it. Take her's. I am optimistic that these stereotypes will and are changing, but it is going to take a long time. What are we to do? Well for starters we could reprogram Barbie's asinine sayings which include: "Math is hard." and "Shopping is fun."