Try again.
On Tuesday, 20 March 2018 09:12:27 GMT PeterMerchant via dorset wrote:
> The makeup of the LUG fits the M/F proportions pretty well. Why don't
> more women take up software? I once [c1980] had a team that was
> predominantly excellent female programmers.
There seems to have been a mass migration away from programming by women. My
wife gained her degree in CS at Leicester Poly in 1979. Pretty much all of
her fellow students were female. 15 years earlier, as a schoolboy, I was
taken to Rugby College to see my first computer (a mainframe of course). All
of the staff were women.
I suspect that the initial popularity of programming for women was
stereotyping. In the 1950s, boys didn't do typing; that was seen as a 'girly'
job. As the 80s progressed more and more boys were given computers for
Christmas (Sinclair et al), but parents never saw that girls might be
interested in such a thing, so gradually the stereotyping swapped over.
I think the modern trend with Code Clubs and Raspberry Jams, etc is beginning
to make a difference, but it will take time.
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