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They were called computers.

These women had advanced math degrees and when an engineer didn't want to bother with doing their own math for a bridge or some other project, they would send their calculations to the computers and THEY did the math.

Those same women are the ones who initially started computer programming which is where the machine got its name.

When it started paying well, all of a sudden it became a male dominated field.

Normies and thinking the "real math" is long division :marseymanysuchcases: !codecels discuss

/u/Desert_Fairy it sounds like they were literally replaced.

"When it started paying well, all of a sudden it became a male dominated field." Reverses cause and effect. Programmer salaries didn't take off until the 00's after a decade of CS being the only major to not only buck but dramatically reverse the feminization trend in universities.

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Computers (female) took a calculation that some :marseybigbrain: wrote and worked out the answer, it was like manual was work, not totally brainless but also not super high skill

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>they wrote code!

No, they took someone else's code and punched it into cards to feed into computers. Glorified data entry.

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What do you think programming is?

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Not transferring someone else's program to punch cards.

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It's 95% translating some product owner's dumb idea into fortran punch cards Python microservices.

Or, if you're lucky, some mathematician's algorithm into R.

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That's completely different from being given code and being asked to type it in or punch it on cards.

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Why don't more women do it then.

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