> Doesn't your narrative just confirm then that "working with computers" has always been related to social norms? No, that's not what I'm saying at all. It doe

> Doesn't your narrative just confirm then that "working with computers" has always been related to social norms? No, that's not what I'm saying at all. It doesn't matter how well they "performed". What matters is: would they have chosen that profession if they weren't placed there? Could it be that men preferred computer-related careers more than women did? If so, then the fact that many women were placed in those careers initially is completely irrelevant to the question of why there aren't a lot of women in those careers now.