5 Jul
2007
5 Jul
'07
4:10 a.m.
Allison wrote:
Roger that. Many women were not technical level and
were there to punch
the cards or other "more womanly" tasks. It's one of the computing dark
chapters. There were women in the forefront as well. It's part
of the not so nice general history of women in the workforce.
ObOT:
This is something I still see in the OS-level training that I do. I
get maybe one woman[0] in 16 students. OTOH, the Java, MySQL,
Websphere, and "Secretarial MS-Office" courses get a much heavier
proportion of females.
I have no theories at all about any of that.
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