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fzeroracerlast Thursday at 3:27 PM1 replyview on HN

It's really quite funny too, because women were a huge population of programmers and computer science graduates all the way up to the mid 1980s, when the ratios began flipping in favor of men. The biological argument would assume that either something changed biologically from 1980s onwards to make women less predisposed to be programmers, or (the more usual argument I see) 'that they were just doing the gruntwork' which usually exposes them as who they are.


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blarg1last Thursday at 4:44 PM

> women were a huge population of programmers

wasn't that there were a lot of women working as operators, but that job went away along with the punch cards.