It's wild how computer programming went from exclusively women's work to "we're not sexist we just don't think women are interested in it" in like 40 years
My mom was an early computer programmer in San Francisco for a national brand. She worked mostly with women. Then men got interested in computing and the companies made them the bosses of the women programmers, even though they didn’t know a thing about FORTRAN or COBOL. After 30+ years as a programmer, my mom was never promoted beyond team leader because management was only for the menfolk, whom she trained.
@KatM @jpkmensah @teledyn I’m in a rare position I guess that both my mum and dad could code when I was a kid. Fortran 77 was their preference back then.
@gpowerf @KatM @jpkmensah
I'm technically older than Fortran (by a few days) but we all started with PL/C and later Watfiv. It was when I found Lisp that it started to get interesting…