From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108793,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid108793,public X-Google-Thread: fb3cb,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb3cb,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 115d3b,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid115d3b,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: f973d,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gidf973d,public From: scott@aravis.softbase.com (Scott McMahan) Subject: Re: Partners Wanted Date: 1999/07/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 500484102 References: <37852976.F8027C86@home.com> <7m4dut$r3i$1@news.cybercity.dk> <3785F6D1.3BE9@cacd.rockwell.com> <378c3a1e.594832624@news.bctel.ca> Followup-To: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.security,comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.delphi,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,alt.lang.delphi X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care X-Trace: monger.newsread.com 931867801 208.150.25.60 (Tue, 13 Jul 1999 08:10:01 EDT) Organization: NewEraCom (skyrunner.net) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 08:10:01 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.security,comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.delphi,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,alt.lang.delphi Date: 1999-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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