• havokdj@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s almost like they don’t know who Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Radia Perlman, etc. are.

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      I’ve been in IT for 30 years. I wish I could say this stuff surprises me but it doesn’t. The industry still struggles with misogyny

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        List wasn’t supposed to be comprehensive but feel totally free to add to it, the more examples we have the more we can BTFO the incel chuds

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      Programming began as a solely female profession. In the early days of computers mathematics viewed programming as beneath them so it was relegated to women. Before computers they performed complex calculations by hand and those number crunchers were women, so when number crunchers were replaced with computers the best women graduated to programming those instead. If course once it became clear that programming was much more versatile and transformative than just converting math equations into instructions, men just took it and kicked women out of the industry. It’s not just the big female names that are being ignored here, it’s an entire history and industry that was stolen from women that is being ignored.

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        “G-GU-GUH?!?! NO, HOW COULD THIS BE?!?!? A FEMAIL GURL? IN MY PRO-GRAMMING COMMUNITY? PRO-GRAMMING IS 4 MANLY STRAIGHT WHITE MALES LIKE ALAN TURING (lol), ADAM LOVELACE, AND GRAYSON HOPPER”