[busterarm]

When my brother was starting his career in university IT in the very early 90s, CS was still part of the math department and most places were anywhere from 1/3 to 2/3 women. Many people at the time considered operating a computer to be equivalent to secretarial work.

Such a gender disparity in tech is relatively recent and pretty much since the iPhone and the flood of zero-interest money into the industry. And yet all of the big FAANGs hire lots of women.

And as someone who has done lots of hiring across the industry, generally women don't even apply to jobs that aren't big recognized brands anymore.

[kalleboo]

> pretty much since the iPhone

I would say it's since the dot-com crash, I went to university in 2003 and it was like 100:1 men in the CS courses back then.

[busterarm]

And nobody was complaining about that then either because there were no job prospects and the high salaries from pre-crash were long gone.