>Not to be a pedant, but historically computing was considered "womens work" in its initial stages. It's becoming quite fashionable to bring this up lately, as

>Not to be a pedant, but historically computing was considered "womens work" in its initial stages. It's becoming quite fashionable to bring this up lately, as if its inherently a trump card to the discussion. The obvious follow up to this statement should be to ask: why did the state of things change? Without any attempt at getting to the bottom of why things changed, the statement itself seems to create more ambiguity rather than clarity.