[52-6F-62]

Don't forget about the incredible women who helped the Apollo missions happen:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-story-of-nasa...

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That said, I want to respond to the line about being poor at maths. I wasn't. I was a 90th percentile student in the sciences as well. But my teachers made it terribly boring, and I was from a very small town where there were little to no resources to reach out to out of interest. Our library had a computer, though. And my mom had an old 286 -- I think that changed everything. Once the internet arrived out there it was my window to a larger world that television certainly couldn't provide. (outside of literature, of course. And I wound up studying literature... yet here I am currently employed as a programmer because of 20 years of personal interest)

[orionblastar]

Well I am sad to hear your teachers made it boring for you. Mine did too but I found a way to make it fun when I learned how formulas worked and was able to teach myself BASIC on a Commodore 64 and make video games , etc.

I'm not sure why my parent post was voted down. I've been trying to get more people to learn programming even women and minorities.

I tried to teach my son, but he isn't interested and would rather work on cars. So one has to have an interest and passion for learning programming as well.

I am glad you finally learned and worked for 20 years or so. Good for you!

[52-6F-62]

Oh I haven't been working in it for 20 years, I've just been doing it out of interest from a young age.

It's only been the past few years I've been working in the field.

Outside of most tech fields, or people who like 'nerds' for their supposed money computers and work involving them in any technical fashion still has a stigma attached to it.

I think you're right that one has to have formed an interest, but sometimes that takes an introduction into what's possible and when you have some know how -- the amazing mutability of these very powerful machines is a lot like a car in ways.