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That's just factually wrong. Software does have those. Computer programmers used to be almost exclusively women.
by iy56 14y ago
That's just factually wrong. Software does have those. Computer programmers used to be almost exclusively women.
- mcguire 14y ago"Software does have those." Could you tell me which part of the software industry currently has a majority of women? (We agree that "does" is present tense, right?) I seem to be missing it. "Computer programmers used to be almost exclusively women." True. But that was before I was born. And I'm 45.[1] [1] http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2011/researcher-reveals-how-%E2%80%9Ccomputer-geeks%E2%80%9D-replaced-%E2%80%9Ccomputergirls%E2%80%9D http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2011/researcher-reveals-how-...
- iy56 14y agoOh, what I meant was that software does also have a history of such roles. Today, developers are mostly men, but QA and documentation seem to be female-dominated.
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