[systemtest]

Perhaps we go full circle and have predominately female programmers by then.

[edoceo]

A full circle puts us back where we started?

[mrguyorama]

Programming used to be a "woman's job" as secretaries.

[throwaway675309]

yeah, but being a programmer had a different connotation in that sense, just like how you wouldn't call a person who xeroxed a book an "author".

[monocasa]

No, a lot of those women legitimately did what we'd call programming.

[mixmastamyk]

It was soft-ware after all.

Downvoters don't seem to understand this point, that was the idea in the old days. That hardware was for men.

[bregma]

In the 1840s when programmable computing devices were first manufactured, 100% of programmers were women. She died about 10 years later.

[robkop]

I think one Mr Charles Babbage might disagree with you on that. Also I wouldn't say that any were actually manufactured. The first fully working model of the difference engine was created in the 1990s and as far as I know there never was a working analytical engine.

[edoceo]

Looks like some folks missed my point, others got it 100%. I am in favor of more diversity in software builders, I practice what I preach