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Re:Harvey Mudd College Attempting to Address Tech Diversity ... by SerLava on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @02:13PM (#13321151)
>For example, there was a time that software engineering was dominated by females. At the time, software development was considered a feminine task.

But I think you are talking about a menial job that doesn't exist anymore. That skew comes from basically punch card data entry.

I don't think software design was ever female dominated. Is that incorrect?

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Re:Harvey Mudd College Attempting to Address Tech Diversity ... by _mhr_ on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @02:33PM (#13321316)
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...

Never female dominated (at least, in terms of degrees), but there was much less of a gap.

I couldn't find occupational statistics, only academic. I did find a lot of anecdotes about software being a stereotypically female activity, but I couldn't find actual data.

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