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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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3/ The reality is more subtle: men *thought* they were giving women the boring punch-card grunt work and keeping the creative, hard stuff
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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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6/ The nominal work took math skills (diff equations etc.) women were thought to be poor at, but not ingenuity or creativity. Still a win.
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