[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.