From: scott@aravis.softbase.com (Scott McMahan)
Subject: Re: Partners Wanted
Date: 1999/07/13
Date: 1999-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <t0Gi3.1038$J71.54999@monger.newsread.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 378c3a1e.594832624@news.bctel.ca
Roedy Green (a1b84881@mail.bctel.ca) wrote:
> Back in my university days, the distribution of men and women in the
> computer field was much more equal than today. What happened? Why
> did computers become an almost exclusively male preserve?
COBOL was replaced by C. A perfectly understandable language based on
English that allowed you to tell the computer what to do was replaced
by a language that looked like modem line noise. There seems to be a dip
in the proportions of male/female about this time -- in the olden days,
the male/female ratio was about the same in business shops. (Not that
I was there, but I know people who were.) Not that I'm generalizing
or anything, but most women seemed to be COBOL coders, and went into
management. There's a generation gap of sorts between the old-guard
COBOL coders who went into management, and the new guard who go directly
into management :) I don't have any numbers to back up my theory, though,
so it's just a wild guess.
Scott
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-08 0:00 Partners Wanted Bahram Mirkalami
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Mark
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Bahram Mirkalami
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Kim N�rby Andersen
1999-07-09 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
[not found] ` <01beca1a$86d1a800$0e01a8c0@eton.powernet.co.uk>
1999-07-09 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-09 0:00 ` firewind
1999-07-10 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-07-10 0:00 ` Kenny A. Chaffin
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Roedy Green
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Jim
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Edward Hill
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Edward Hill
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Scott McMahan [this message]
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1999-07-13 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Warner Bruns
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Roedy Green
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` LR
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Richard Heathfield
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Richard Heathfield
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Dale King
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Dale King
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Steve Horne
1999-07-14 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
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