> Programming was originally an exclusively female profession because it was seen as lowly-paid "women's work". Every time this comes up, someone points out th

> Programming was originally an exclusively female profession because it was seen as lowly-paid "women's work". Every time this comes up, someone points out that "programming" was mostly data entry at that time, and that there is a suspicious correlation between the decline in female programmers and the movement of data entry from programmers to administrators. I can't seem to find hard data either way, though. So make of that what you will.