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Please note that images of computers from this era nearly always have women at the "terminal". Women are the ones who invented programming. Spread the word. We need more women in our field. See for example https://www.jstor.org/stable/25147356 and https://doi.org/10.7275/yen8-qn18
Why?
Please note that images of computers from this era nearly always have women at the "terminal". Women are the ones who invented programming. Spread the word. We need more women in our field. See for example https://www.jstor.org/stable/25147356 and https://doi.org/10.7275/yen8-qn18
> We need more women in our field. Why?
Please note that images of computers from this era nearly always have women at the "terminal". Women are the ones who invented programming. Spread the word. We need more women in our field. See for example https://www.jstor.org/stable/25147356 and https://doi.org/10.7275/yen8-qn18
> We need more women in our field. Why?
1) College degree 2) Typing 60 WPM
She and basically everyone else had been pushed to learn to type in high-school, so they'd have something better than waitressing to fall back on.
Please note that images of computers from this era nearly always have women at the "terminal". Women are the ones who invented programming. Spread the word. We need more women in our field. See for example https://www.jstor.org/stable/25147356 and https://doi.org/10.7275/yen8-qn18
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Royal_Naval_Service
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> We need more women in our field. Why?
OK, I’ll take the question at face value: programmers build systems on computers that interface with the real world and hence real users. If you want to build systems that work well for users then you need to understand the problems those users have. Having a wide spread of life experience in the industry will lead to a greater chance that a greater spread of users will have their problems solved by digital systems.
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> We need more women in our field. Why?
OK, I’ll take the question at face value: programmers build systems on computers that interface with the real world and hence real users. If you want to build systems that work well for users then you need to understand the problems those users have. Having a wide spread of life experience in the industry will lead to a greater chance that a greater spread of users will have their problems solved by digital systems.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
OK, I’ll take the question at face value: programmers build systems on computers that interface with the real world and hence real users. If you want to build systems that work well for users then you need to understand the problems those users have. Having a wide spread of life experience in the industry will lead to a greater chance that a greater spread of users will have their problems solved by digital systems.
Sounds contrived to me but I'll give the benefit of the doubt. Is there any evidence that women have more trouble with computer programs or are less well served compared to men? Even if so, wouldn't that require more female product owners etc rather than more programmers?
He was one of the main reasons I got into electronics and then programming
Please note that images of computers from this era nearly always have women at the "terminal". Women are the ones who invented programming. Spread the word. We need more women in our field. See for example https://www.jstor.org/stable/25147356 and https://doi.org/10.7275/yen8-qn18