Yeah when it became clear that software was hard prestigious work instead of clerical/rote data entry, men decided it was Men's Work.
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I think it presumes too much to say women were "forced out"
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fields with a preponderance of women tend to be low-status and also tend to be viewed/described in feminized terms
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declaring as fact one set of causal arrows connecting these nodes is basically an ideological statement
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eg, a feminist take saying masculinizing a field is an act intended to suppress female membership
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vs a more gender roles-y argument that women gravitate toward fields coded feminine
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a lot of these arguments boil down to opposite sides agreeing on x and y but absolutely convinced x causes y or vice versa
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also gf raised the point that companies in the 80s were looking for lifers and women tended to exit the workforce after marriage
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also worth mentioning: in mid-80s CS department I worked in, few people had CS degrees. HS + other degrees. Hard to measure on data.
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