> Between pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper and Kathleen Booth, it's still weird to me that IT has ended up becoming a male dominated industry. The issu

> Between pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper and Kathleen Booth, it's still weird to me that IT has ended up becoming a male dominated industry. The issue is segmenting "IT" as some special industry separate from any other skilled trade that relies more on knowledge than tools than say... car stuff. When you have to clarify if someone meant someone is a rapist or just someone who TK when the word "asshole" is used in policy circles, you begin to understand why some things went the way they did. I ended up enrolling in a PhD to get out of my hometown because they actually did a good job of making things like STEM admissions more gender equal -- but they did it with don't ask, don't tell in effect, when you'd be told sarcastically "maybe you should go smoke some weed" by folks who didn't seem to grok -- you're a social worker who can send people off to prison, how dare you just casually tell people who the system has failed to just go take a risk whose costs won't fall on you. (But I wasn't mature enough to articulate it that way, so I drank a lot and made a lot of rude posts on the internet) Anyways, it is ABSOLUTELY weird, and tied in with the fact that post WWII many GI bill benefits were not evenly distributed... and so on and so forth. I'm not going to rehash the American civil rights movement in the HN comments section at shortly after midnight on what will be, later... devil's night. PS: As always, I'm a guy, so take what I say on these matters with a grain of salt.