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@jonobie @Halpin @juneb

Yeah, women started getting shoved out of programming jobs in the 70s for a host of reasons -- including that it was becoming a recognizably significant corporate role, so firms wanted to hire coder who could ascend to management positions ... and they weren't willing to make women managers

Then when pop culture seized on computers in the early 80s, it was all young mostly-white boy nerds