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not that quickly - there were still plenty of women kicking around in the era of the sun workstation.
by convolvatron 4y ago
not that quickly - there were still plenty of women kicking around in the era of the sun workstation.
- Jensson 4y agoMy grandmother retired around that time, was replaced by 2 guys. Most of the women might still have been there, but with how the amount of computers and people working with them increased the share of women working in the field quickly shrank. There were a lot of women who did the equivalent of modern excel work back then though. My uncle said the company took all the secretaries and spent 2 weeks getting all the numbers in order to make the yearly report, and how he convinced them to buy a computer and he used it to get it done in a day, was in the 70's. I'd guess that transformation involved the female computers at many companies, but the programming to get that done is very simple so you don't need dedicated programmers and I wouldn't call the people working on that programmers, my uncle was a business guy and not a computer wiz he just bought a computer and followed the manual.
- Ancapistani 4y ago> my uncle was a business guy and not a computer wiz he just bought a computer and followed the manual. Uh… that describes my early training pretty well. Once Google and then StackOverflow came on the scene, replace “manual” with “searching the Internet” and it still applies.