“I am not, nor have I never been, a Barbie collector, but I find the Career of the Year series fascinating as a metric of public attitudes toward feminism. …. Generally Mattel’s team wants to present Barbie as a feminist trendsetter but in a centrist way, a model of forward-thinking but non-controversial feminism, and it’s fascinating to watch that metric evolve.” Ada Palmer (previously) discusses the decade-long history of the Career of the Year series, and notes, “Barbie’s 2020 Career of the Year is (for the first time) not a single Barbie but a team”. And what happened in 2017?