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1969 and 1970 at Bell Labs

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Re: 1969 and 1970 at Bell Labs

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Post by spooneybarger »

reaperducer wrote: post #7
greggyb wrote: post #4

What happened to all the women? This office would make diversity/inclusion officers salivate.

What happened to all the women? This office would make diversity/inclusion officers salivate. I don't know what slideshow you're looking at, but the vast majority of the pictures I see are women. http://www.larryluckham.com/1969%20&%2070%20-%20Bell%20Labs/... http://www.larryluckham.com/1969%20&%2070%20-%20Bell%20Labs/... http://www.larryluckham.com/1969%20&%2070%20-%20Bell%20Labs/... http://www.larryluckham.com/1969…

"What happened to all the women? This office would make diversity/inclusion officers salivate."

The OP meant, if you were to do a slideshow now, there would probably be considerably fewer women now.

Re: 1969 and 1970 at Bell Labs

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reaperducer wrote: post #7
greggyb wrote: post #4

What happened to all the women? This office would make diversity/inclusion officers salivate.

What happened to all the women? This office would make diversity/inclusion officers salivate. I don't know what slideshow you're looking at, but the vast majority of the pictures I see are women. http://www.larryluckham.com/1969%20&%2070%20-%20Bell%20Labs/... http://www.larryluckham.com/1969%20&%2070%20-%20Bell%20Labs/... http://www.larryluckham.com/1969%20&%2070%20-%20Bell%20Labs/... http://www.larryluckham.com/1969…

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Re: 1969 and 1970 at Bell Labs

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Post by Aloha »

greggyb wrote: post #9
reaperducer wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happened to all the women? This office would make diversity/inclusion officers salivate. I don't know what slideshow you're looking at, but the vast majority of the pictures I see are women. http://www.larryluckham.com/1969%20&%2070%20-%20Bell%20Labs/... http://www.larryluckham.com/1969%20&%2070%20-%20Bell%20Labs/... http://www.larryluckham.com/1969%20&%2070%20-%20Bell%20Labs/... http://www.larryluckham.com/1969…

We are agreeing. To expand: What happened to all the women in tech fields? This office would make diversity/inclusion officers (who are modern additions to organizations) salivate, because current workplaces do not look like this slideshow.

I've spent most of my career in Telecom, this is how my experience in telecom is, AT&T got into equal opportunity early, and the notion stayed with the company past divestiture.

Re: 1969 and 1970 at Bell Labs

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Post by reaperducer »

newprint wrote: post #5

Notice interesting thing - a lot of women in the pictures. My mom worked with a large mainframe in early 80's and from what she told me, majority of employees were women. They had just few guys, they quickly got taken out of dating pool.

My mom worked with a large mainframe in early 80's and from what she told me, majority if employees were women.

I remember this, too.

In fact, the first two people who taught me how to use a computer (back in 8" floppy disk and 2K RAM days) were women. And nuns.

Re: 1969 and 1970 at Bell Labs

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Post by oil25 »

Nothing but blank pages in Firefox without Javascript, which I disable for non-HTTPS protected sites. If your site needs Javascript to display a simple image on an HTML page, please consider your users and their accessibility needs.

Re: 1969 and 1970 at Bell Labs

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Post by closetohome »

oil25 wrote: post #15

Nothing but blank pages in Firefox without Javascript, which I disable for non-HTTPS protected sites. If your site needs Javascript to display a simple image on an HTML page, please consider your users and their accessibility needs.

I'm in Chrome with...I don't know, some add-ons, and the whole thing is basically broken for me.

What an absolute POS gallery app.

Something wrong with using static HTML to display all of a couple dozen jpegs?

Re: 1969 and 1970 at Bell Labs

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

greggyb wrote: post #4

What happened to all the women? This office would make diversity/inclusion officers salivate.

Men took their jobs. At the time, programming wasn't held in such high esteem by the general populace since it wasn't far removed from the menial busy work of shuffling around card stacks and tape reels. When it became more lucrative, the demographics shifted.
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