The Secret History of Women in Coding

 

All my life I have been wondering why does man discriminate women so much, like, it is because men have more physical strength? And that make us man thought that women were inferior? In my point of view that’s dumb And I hate that that mentality is still in our days.

Reading this article opened my eyes to the exceptional work that women have been doing for Computer sciences all this year, amazing that in most cases man got the credit for their achievement, for example the Eniac demonstration they don’t mention the women that bring that to life.

Also, the mentality that programming was a woman’s work was because it was seemed as a secretarial work, and that not man enough, so in the 90s 35% of programmers were women. Now is 13 to 14%, and I hope that the stereotype that engineering is for man don’t continue anymore.

The contributions of women are amazing, to the “break point” for debugging a program, the first compiler and Cobol language. Well, if I don’t do programming, was else will I do?

Then Hollywood and the CEO start to think that programmers were with young male, nerds, isolated people, not women, it became something of man, in schools women were set aside,  filters were put because the high demand of Computer science, and women were not the one to pass the filter. “You’re to pretty to a be a engineer”

This discrimination to woman and the programming world is still going on, we believe that progress has been made, but the true is that we still live in a mans world, were women face countless problems to get to were mans can get easy. Its really sad, and in our country is worse, I want this to change, the culture of the world to change and that equality is the normal, not the racism of most of the people because others thons have pps.