While the % of women in many occupations has increased, than in computing has declined.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/technology/technologys-man-problem.html?_r=1 …
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@BernardKeane As the status of an occupation changes substantially, so too may the gender composition, eg typing in c18 used to be... -
very male dominated, but it became female-dominated (nimble fingers?) and relative pay dropped. As computing apparently started off as...
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female dominated, but became male dominated as it attracted higher status, I suspect that the higher status was linked to it being now ...
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...seen as man's work (and has become very hostile to women - hence the comment about jerks from that article). There was another study...
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...of confectionery (Kelly and Forbath 1992): as women moved into certain areas that work was defined as being unskilled - yet it had ...
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