I find it funny that the media have to cherry pick and create a fictional character for their drama 'based upon real events' reporting. Truth was, some of the earliest coders were women and most of those stopped because they got out-competed when men joined the field as part of the computer/video game revolution. Of course, the real and successful women aren't the ones they want to focus on, even when they choose to look at history, instead doing the same creative writing/editing to them as they do modern women, ala Lovelace and Katherine Johnson.
Truth was, some of the earliest coders were women and most of those stopped because they got out-competed when men joined the field as part of the computer/video game revolution.
Women were in the field - when coding was simple (primitive computers were so slow you could only do so much).
Women left the field - when computers got faster and coding got complicated.
Men started leaving field - when coding got to complicated even for them.
Coding made a lot if money - so men invented ways to make coding simpler.
Older women wanted to move into cushy high paid management positions so they used "women in coding" to provide cover.
I could write a whole wall of text on the various things women go through to get out of coding once they realize what it's actually like - women still don't actually want to be in coding for the most part. Men often reach this same point around their 30's or 40's where the tedium starts to get to them and they try to move into other positions - management, sales, anything else.
You missed the first step: Women were the field. The word computer originally referred to a person, usually a woman, who would sit at a desk and make simple and mind-numbingly repetitive calculations. Then, men figured out how to automate the job.
I find it funny that the media have to cherry pick and create a fictional character for their drama 'based upon real events' reporting. Truth was, some of the earliest coders were women and most of those stopped because they got out-competed when men joined the field as part of the computer/video game revolution. Of course, the real and successful women aren't the ones they want to focus on, even when they choose to look at history, instead doing the same creative writing/editing to them as they do modern women, ala Lovelace and Katherine Johnson.
Women were in the field - when coding was simple (primitive computers were so slow you could only do so much).
Women left the field - when computers got faster and coding got complicated.
Men started leaving field - when coding got to complicated even for them.
Coding made a lot if money - so men invented ways to make coding simpler.
Older women wanted to move into cushy high paid management positions so they used "women in coding" to provide cover.
I could write a whole wall of text on the various things women go through to get out of coding once they realize what it's actually like - women still don't actually want to be in coding for the most part. Men often reach this same point around their 30's or 40's where the tedium starts to get to them and they try to move into other positions - management, sales, anything else.
You missed the first step: Women were the field. The word computer originally referred to a person, usually a woman, who would sit at a desk and make simple and mind-numbingly repetitive calculations. Then, men figured out how to automate the job.