Programming then was very different and historical gender segregation in jobs, preceding the development of programming, led to the very earliest programming te

Programming then was very different and historical gender segregation in jobs, preceding the development of programming, led to the very earliest programming teams to be assembled from clerical workers which were at the time largely women. By the time I started programming, 50 years ago, the field had shifted. In one class I took, in a large lecture hall at MIT there was only one female student. In that same lecture hall the organic chemistry lectures were very roughly 50% women.