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Prior to the cold war, Computing was primarily seen as womens work. Typists / data entry positions were almost exclusively held by women. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/02/19/women-built-tech-industry-then-they-were-pushed-out/ https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/17/356944145/episode-576-when-women-stopped-coding Many pioneers of analogue computing were women https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1253887 https://www.ge.com/news/reports/edith-clarke-mother-of-invention Alan Turing (a gay man) was instrumental in the invention of digital computing https://www.livescience.com/29483-alan-turing.html
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