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The gendered history of programming is particularly interesting for anyone who wants to understand the nature of office culture for software engineering/IT and
by bsanr2 7y ago
The gendered history of programming is particularly interesting for anyone who wants to understand the nature of office culture for software engineering/IT and of computer science academia.
https://timeline.com/women-pioneered-computer-programming-then-men-took-their-industry-over-c2959b822523 https://timeline.com/women-pioneered-computer-programming-th...
https://web.archive.org/web/20180110125934/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180110125934/
https://www.history.com/news/coding-used-to-be-a-womans-job-so-it-was-paid-less-and-undervalued https://www.history.com/news/coding-used-to-be-a-womans-job-... (Please forgive the tone.)