There's some interesting history around the gendered history of computing: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25147356 https://www.jstor.org/stable/25147356 Ballisti

There's some interesting history around the gendered history of computing: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25147356 https://www.jstor.org/stable/25147356 Ballistics computing was obviously done by women as the men were drafted & overseas, but all paid at 'subprofessional rates'. Another good history at https://confluence.gallatin.nyu.edu/sections/research/how-computing-became-masculine-in-the-cold-war https://confluence.gallatin.nyu.edu/sections/research/how-co... There are definitely some parallels between OP's article and the history of computing.