Re:Why Americans Stopped Moving
by seanmcdirmid on Monday September 02, 2024 @01:41AM
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Programming was a popular profession for women back then also, ironically enough, although not in the quantity of nursing and teaching.
No it wasn't, there were barely any female programmers because there were barely any programmers at all. Number of programmers has been exponentially increasing for a really long time, there weren't many of them before it became male dominated.
Re:Why Americans Stopped Moving
by vundercind on Monday September 02, 2024 @08:22AM
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Programmer was also a different job then, which no longer exists.
How large part of this was actually secretarial work? Which has very largely disappeared with advent of personal computer in business. Lot of typist and such positions were women too. Not just teachers and nurses.
The teachers weren't men, they were all women. Back in those days, educated women had only 2 professions available to them: nurse or schoolteacher. Anything else was basically off-limits. So schools were full of very smart women who didn't want to be a nurse and didn't have any other career opportunities.