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Nada Bakos

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“…a lot of computing pioneers, the ones who programmed the first digital computers, were women. And for decades, the number of women in computer science was growing. But in 1984, something changed. The number of women in computers plunged.”

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Kathy Cook's avatar Kathy Cook @kathycook.bsky.social
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Also worth considering as factors: no maternal leave back then, no way to work remotely, & there was and is a dominant tech bro culture (speaking as a recently retired tech sis).

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