[icebraining]

Fair enough; I understood you meant women went into it now because it's "sexy".

That said, back in '84 when women still composed a good chunk of the workforce, programmers and system analysts earned $60-$100k/year (2015 dollars), which is close to the current average ($80k in 2013).

So it seems to me that it already paid well when it became male-dominated - even if that wasn't the reason it did so.