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Women were \u201ccrowded out\u201d of computer programming \u2014 and not because of biology:<\/strong> Back in the early days of computers, it was women rather than men who dominated the field of programming. In fact, it\u2019s widely believed that the first piece of code was written by a Ms. Ada Lovelace in the 19th century, after she \u201crecognized that the all-powerful machine could do more than calculate; it could be programmed to run a self-contained series of actions, with the results of each step determining the next step,\u201d Stephen Mihm writes for Bloomberg<\/a>. Women were perceived as having more aptitude for programming as they were more 'patient', while men concerned themselves with hardware. As years went by, what had once perceived as \u201cglorified clerical work\u201d was elevated into a science.<\/strong> It was only then in the 1960s that women began to lose ground, as \u201cmen from established fields like physics, mathematics and electrical engineering\u201d began to recognize the importance of programming. Groups such as the Association for Computing Machinery rose and corporations began insisting programmers carry advanced degrees and take aptitude tests, putting women of the time at a disadvantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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