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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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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Have you never read Hidden Figures or otherwise listened to words from women who lived thru this? They fought tooth and nail for prestige.
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You're taking a 30,000 foot view and saying "I don't know which is cause and which is effect but the antifeminist view is probably right"
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Which completely contradicts everything I've heard from actual "computer girls." Male hostility was pervasive.
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> actual hahahahha
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