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Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, and App Camp for Girls refute your bs.

• tropo 10y ago
  Grace Hopper might have rather been in charge of an aircraft carrier. Ada Lovelace might also have wanted to do other things. Opportunities were limited for women. Don't assume that computing was the first choice career for those women.
  • dragonwriter 10y ago
    > Grace Hopper might have rather been in charge of an aircraft carrier. [...] Opportunities were limited for women. Even had the Navy not had gender-restricted roles, the only reason Dr. Hopper got an exemption from physical requirements she did not meet was her strong background in math and physics that qualified her to fill the need for the computation project. Gender bias aside, she would never have gotten to command an aircraft carrier.