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Re:More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest nu... by MrsPeaches on Thursday January 13, 2022 @03:40PM (#29926530)
A women (Ada Lovelace) is "often been cited as the first computer programmer" [1]

Also the term "Computer" was actually an occupation (that was dominated by women) before the modern usage [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#First_computer_pr... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)

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Re:More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest nu... by pyuser583 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @11:31PM (#29930613)
Is there any evidence for a grammatically feminine version of “computer?” “Computress?”

Edit: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/computress

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