Lowering standards of technical proficiency to create an elite class of male computer workers didn’t work, however.
I wonder, then, what people expect from the recent (and ultimately ineffective) pushes/quotas for more women in STEM?
Also, I wonder what changed between say... the 60s, where a woman coded men to the moon, and the 90s, where a man interested in computing was too dorky for the attention of your average woman. The stigma was not insignificant. If you remember the "talk nerdy to me" of the mid 00s, you see when the collective of women began to think code was cool again -- then the number of self identifying "nerdy" females has only increased.
Multiple things changed, I think, and it's not entirely that "men decided to kick women out and that is the end of the story."
The recent pushes for more women in STEM should see more success than it has, given women were the original programmers, which I'm sure we won't hear the end of until forever.
Just saying.
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I wonder, then, what people expect from the recent (and ultimately ineffective) pushes/quotas for more women in STEM?
Also, I wonder what changed between say... the 60s, where a woman coded men to the moon, and the 90s, where a man interested in computing was too dorky for the attention of your average woman. The stigma was not insignificant. If you remember the "talk nerdy to me" of the mid 00s, you see when the collective of women began to think code was cool again -- then the number of self identifying "nerdy" females has only increased.
Multiple things changed, I think, and it's not entirely that "men decided to kick women out and that is the end of the story."
The recent pushes for more women in STEM should see more success than it has, given women were the original programmers, which I'm sure we won't hear the end of until forever.
Just saying.