[philwelch]

Sure, if you count from the beginning of the medical profession (though technically, women dominated some parts of medicine, like delivering babies, for millennia before men ever became involved, and then women broke back in).

If you count from the beginning of women-in-the-workplace style feminism, software should have had women almost from the outset. If a new profession or a new sector of the economy arose now you'd expect it to have tons of women because as a culture we're used to women in the workplace, right? What about biotech--are there more women in biotech than software?