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It's not merely sexist, it's misleading. When the LGP-30 was in use in the late '50s (the RPC 4000 was introduced in 1960), the proportion of women in the field
by ionfish 17y ago
It's not merely sexist, it's misleading. When the LGP-30 was in use in the late '50s (the RPC 4000 was introduced in 1960), the proportion of women in the field was higher than it is today. When "programmers were men", more of them were women.
References (secondary sources only, sorry):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing
http://knol.google.com/k/the-decline-of-women-in-computer-science-from-1940-1982 http://knol.google.com/k/the-decline-of-women-in-computer-sc...
- lsb 17y agoYup, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper was a pretty important figure in computer science in the mid-20th century.
- lutorm 17y agoI was going to make exactly this point. Computer science is the only field I know of that has actually increased its male dominance over time.