In the 40s, I don't think computing was a thing like you're implying, kind of like nuclear reactors were a very very tiny area. The explosion of computer usage

In the 40s, I don't think computing was a thing like you're implying, kind of like nuclear reactors were a very very tiny area. The explosion of computer usage and programming was more like the late 50s, when Fortran came out. Even then, I don't think people even thought in terms of a "computing workforce". Nobody majored in computers, a programmer might be a math major or might not. Male engineers had female assistants that were more than typists, but not the same as a Google SWE today either. Nor the same personalities. My source is my own family history and it makes me annoyed at the anachronistic assumptions and framework that people shoehorn historical tidbits into when discussing this topic. By the way, how can you have 50% in the 60s and then a peak at 37% later?