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>The 'biological differences' argument falls flat because it implies that somehow women changed on a biological level between 1984 and today.

Alternatively, that the nature of software work changed.

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Just because initially, women worked on computers doesn't indicate to me whether they were more or less suited to the job. People just thought of it as women's work. They were the typists and human "computers"

In a way that aligns well with some nebulous personality difference between men and women? That's quite a claim.

It seems to me like the nature of the work hasn't even dramatically changed in the first place.

As long as we're just literally making stuff up, isn't there a strong argument that software has become more "feminine" since the 1950s? Back then it was all about business calculations and the like. Now it's all "social" and "design" and "user-centric."

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