[makomk]

IT's white-collar whereas the jobs you're talking about aren't. Apparently there's never been a huge amount of feminist interest in getting women into male-dominated blue-collar jobs or in working-class women in general; it's an old and fairly well documented issue.

[prodigal_erik]

It's money more than status. In the early 1990s, programming was still white collar but paid about the same as accounting, and nobody cared how few women were doing it.

[subsystem]

There were also actually more women in computing back then...

http://blogs.computerworld.com/sites/computerworld.com/files...

[ninjac0der]

Buffet style!

Can I get on the life-raft yet?