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You’re lawyer friend is ignorant of history. Here’s the early programmers for Nasa’s first satellite mission. In WWII and up to around the 1960s, women dominated the programming field.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/rocket-girls-and-the-advent-of-the-space-age
In those days they were called ‘computers’.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/rocket-girls-and-the-advent-of-the-space-age
In those days they were called ‘computers’.
End of WWII there were 2000 computers in Britain- all women. Pretty much all of them had been working at Bletchley Park on code breaking.
By the 1960s, as commercial computers became a reality they started to be replaced by men.
https://www.history.com/news/human-computers-women-at-nasa
By the 1960s, as commercial computers became a reality they started to be replaced by men.
https://www.history.com/news/human-computers-women-at-nasa
Women were 75% of the workforce at Bletchley Park and covered practically all areas including firearms for defence and cryptanalysis.
When the bombes were first installed - the first non-human computers - it was women who programmed them.
https://www.gadgette.com/2016/04/15/women-in-tech-history-bletchley-park/
When the bombes were first installed - the first non-human computers - it was women who programmed them.
https://www.gadgette.com/2016/04/15/women-in-tech-history-bletchley-park/
And let’s not forget the very first programmer was Ada Lovelace, who wrote code without a machine, as one was not to be built for another 100 years or so.
