Comment Re:Slashdot is exceeding itself lately... (Score 1) 224
1943 to 1945 - women were about 95% of the computing workforce.
And by computing workforce, you mean this?
Furthermore, even quite some time after the advent of digital computers, there was this period in which the prevalent opinion in the field was that computer hardware design happened to be the actually important (and perhaps prestigious) job whereas programming said computers was a lowly, clerical work... I don't think that anyone should be surprised to whom these new jobs initially went. In other words, I find it plausible that the initial high involvement of women in early computing was actually a symptom of pre-existing sexism rather than of later-lost equality.