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Title is disingenuous. I don't believe since Ava Lovelace that programming was ever female dominated. Even when the referenced Cosmo article was published, it
by spudlyo 17y ago
Title is disingenuous. I don't believe since Ava Lovelace that programming was ever female dominated. Even when the referenced Cosmo article was published, it was estimated that one in nine programmers were female. Even if reliable observers suggest that it was closer to 30 or even 50 percent, that's still not female dominated. Having said that, I've really enjoyed what I've so far read of this essay.
- scott_s 17y agoSadly there are no numbers, but I had the impression that the all of the "programmers" for ENIAC were women - hired for a job that the machine designers didn't anticipate would be so intellectually rigorous.
- spudlyo 17y agoI hadn't quite read that far in the essay before I made my comment. This is why it's good to read the entire thing before opening your mouth ;)
- joe_the_user 17y agoThe title doesn't imply that programming was ever female dominated.
- spudlyo 17y agoTitle was edited, it previously did just that.
- MartinMond 17y agoI submitted the original title. I choose the wording because of the following sentence in the conclusion that hit home for me: "a field that started out feminized was only gradually – and fitfully – made masculine."