[icebraining]

So women have a biological interest in the technical part of transforming flowcharts into code, but not in the social parts of software development, like gathering requirements?

[kyboren]

I think it's more that they were hired on as typists and secretaries, basically the only office professions that women could have at that time.

[fzeroracer]

This is rather demeaning considering it's objectively false and downplaying the huge influence women had on early software development.

If you're going to claim that women were only hired as secretaries for software dev work I hope you have actual data behind your assertion.

[erik_seaberg]

I have no idea whether they weren't interested or weren't accepted.