- Messages
- 916
Didn't working on the ENIAC involve a lot of tedious maintenance tasks? So to say women are good at STEM because they spent a lot of time in the computer room working on that machine is like saying since women spend a lot of time doing data entry at a keyboard in the corporate world, that too must mean they're good with computers. These are just clerical/ministerial tasks, not involving creativity.
Chicks used to spend a lot of time at the telephone switchboard too, before that stuff was automated; that doesn't mean there was a female Alexander Graham Bell.
Even in the case of Grace Hopper, Wikipedia doesn't really say that she designed COBOL per se, although that was the impression I used to get from some of the accounts I read about the history of computing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper#COBOL
Chicks used to spend a lot of time at the telephone switchboard too, before that stuff was automated; that doesn't mean there was a female Alexander Graham Bell.
Even in the case of Grace Hopper, Wikipedia doesn't really say that she designed COBOL per se, although that was the impression I used to get from some of the accounts I read about the history of computing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper#COBOL