See @histoftech has done a lot on this in the context of Britain: http://www.mariehicks.net/writing.html
@FioraAeterna hrm not entirely convinced: what about countries that aren't the USA? what happened there?
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@TopLeftBrick! FYI, my book, Programmed Inequality, is coming out in December from MIT Press.@allgebrah@pwnallthethings@FioraAeterna
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I started programming in uk in 1986. 50% of intake were women, 50% of coders already there were too.
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Managers were all men at that time too; didn't affect their hiring upon capability, not gender.
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I suspect they are creating a myth: evil conspiracy of neckbearded illuminati stole computing from its female creators
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