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True, but the background required for it... math & science, that was historically a "man's skill"(sexism). Women went to school for things related to home-makin

• philwelch 13y ago
  I think you have your timelines mixed up a bit. In 1995, right before the tech bubble, programming was definitely low prestige and women were definitely already well educated, earning about half of the college degrees. In fact, there's a direct cause and effect going on--programming became high prestige, which caused the feminist hullabaloo about not having enough women programmers that we see today. If programming was already high prestige this would not be news to us and there would already be more women programmers, just as people in the past were obsessed with having more women doctors and lawyers and now there are lots of them.