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Re:You can’t fix diversity in tech without fixing the techni... by internaut on Thursday November 03, 2016 @03:01PM (#12866924)
> Oh? Which ones are those? There used to be more women employed as computer programmers than men, for example. The shift happened because computer programming turned a corner and became prestigious, at which point it became "stereotypically male", and the pattern of "stereotypically male" = prestigious holds through a number of professions.

I think you meant 'computer'.

My grandmother was a computer. That is what they used to call the women who performed calculations in the old days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer

It's interesting history but this could not honestly be described as computer programming. Looking around online it appears there are a lot of articles that have conflated the jobs. There certainly were women in computer science back in the early days, Lovelace, Hopper come to mind.

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