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Re:Women equal men in computing skill, but are less confident by nradov on Monday September 28, 2020 @03:16PM (#24620261)
Programming was female dominated in 1967. IBM hired the first generation of programmers based on aptitude tests because there weren't really any university CS degrees yet.

https://www.businessinsider.com/sc/how-bias-pushed-the-compu...

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Re:Women equal men in computing skill, but are less confident by bz33t on Monday September 28, 2020 @04:33PM (#24620945)
Does anybody know how successful this aptitude test was in hiring women? The (sponsored by IBM) article mentions that 349 companies hired 20,000 women based on this test, but they do not mention how many programmers in total were hired based on this test.
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