"To be fair you might expect that, if you have a command economy you can say "how can we get more women in IT?" and answer with "Take women out of nursing and p

"To be fair you might expect that, if you have a command economy you can say "how can we get more women in IT?" and answer with "Take women out of nursing and put them in IT"." During WW2 in Russia, the Soviets had female snipers and female fighter aces. Why shouldn't they have females in a new, blurry position of a computer programmer - a position so new and so alien to most people that no stereotypes could have evolved by then?