> Computing was originally a female dominated field From allyshack's source: > sitting at tables and doing math laboriously by hand Yea thats not computer pr

> Computing was originally a female dominated field From allyshack's source: > sitting at tables and doing math laboriously by hand Yea thats not computer programming or electrical engineering so please don't conflate that with modern computing. > as computing became a more prestigious field more men entered it No, as men invented electronic computers the armies of female laborers were replaced with a smaller number of overwhelmingly male engineers and programmers. > Girls are socially discouraged from showing interest in stem And now we get to the patriarchy arguments. No; women have much easier and more personally fulfilling life options than sitting behind a computer screen all day, and so they chose not to. All of these feminist arguments have been made and rebutted hundreds of times here on hackernews and anywhere else that allows critical discussion of feminism so it gets very tiresome after a while and should probably fall under flamebait at this point.