Throw back. Woman creates black hole image!! Women in tech!! STRONG WEMEN!!!! BIG STRONG TECH WIMEN!!!!!
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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.