Back when people bought their punched tapes to the computers, being that computers operator was a social job, comparable to a secretary. Look at jobs like opti

Back when people bought their punched tapes to the computers, being that computers operator was a social job, comparable to a secretary. Look at jobs like optician, where the reverse happened: It used to be a crafts job when glasses were hand-manufactured. Today glasses are produced automatically, so the consultation and sales part has taken over and it changed from a men-dominated domain into a women-dominated domain. No badness involved, either.