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>Decades ago, men kicked women out of the programming profession just as it was taking off.

I hear this a lot. Maybe I'm too young to realize, but what exactly happened?

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when... is, I think, a reasonable coverage.

Early “programming jobs” were secretarial work

Early programming jobs were highly technical but seen as secretarial in nature by scientists/engineers focused on hardware and a “how hard could it be” attitude about programming.

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