> Oh? Which ones are those? There used to be more women employed as computer programmers than men, for example. The shift happened because computer programming

> Oh? Which ones are those? There used to be more women employed as computer programmers than men, for example. The shift happened because computer programming turned a corner and became prestigious, at which point it became "stereotypically male", and the pattern of "stereotypically male" = prestigious holds through a number of professions. I think you meant 'computer'. My grandmother was a computer. That is what they used to call the women who performed calculations in the old days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer It's interesting history but this could not honestly be described as computer programming. Looking around online it appears there are a lot of articles that have conflated the jobs. There certainly were women in computer science back in the early days, Lovelace, Hopper come to mind.