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Article: How “Computer Geeks” replaced “Computer Girls”

Historian Nathan Ensmenger explains how computer programming, a field that used to be a popular career choice for women in the 1960s, transformed into the male-dominated entity it is today.

Asked to picture a computer programmer, most of us describe the archetypal computer geek, a brilliant but socially-awkward male … It may be surprising, then, to learn that the earliest computer programmers were women and that the programming field was once stereotyped as female.

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