1/ Naive standard history of computing ignores the role of women entirely beyond Grace Hopper, Ada Lovelace, Klari Von Neumann
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2/ Naive feminist revision suggests (but does not show) that women were the pioneers in the early decades, even more than men
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4/ What really happened: men gave away more power than they realized or intended to. Computing was new; loci of challenges was not obvious
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5/ The nominal work WAS tedious grunt work. But it was above data entry or typing levels. It was tedious and precise math.
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