How Women Got Crowded Out of the Computing Revolution

Re:How Women Got Crowded Out of the Computing Revolution by delhanty on Sunday August 20, 2017 @11:04AM (#15058667)

>Until recent years all developers I met were socially awkward men, me included.

+1 - that's how I remember it too!

I asked the following 12 days ago [0]:

>One thing I'd like to ask the women in this forum:

>If you'd grown up back in the day before tech was cool and techies were (generally) just nerds with no money, would you have still been interested in tech?

>...

I didn't get any replies though ...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14956137

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Re:How Women Got Crowded Out of the Computing Revolution by purpleostrich on Sunday August 20, 2017 @11:16AM (#15058724)

I just replied. We exist.

In my case, I did not get exposed to programming or computers until I was 24 yrs. old, though chance employment.

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