#GAReads | How the tech industry wrote women out of history
left to right: Betty Jennings and Frances Bilas, operating an ENIAC
"How the tech industry wrote women out of history":
…women were the largest trained technical workforce of the computing industry during the second world war and through to the mid-sixties…
But by the 1970s, there was a change in mindset and women were no longer welcome in the workplace: the government and industry had grown wise to just how powerful computers were and wanted to integrate their use at a management level. “But they weren’t going to put women workers – seen as low level drones – in charge of computers,” explains Hicks. Women were systematically phased out and replaced by men who were paid more and had better job titles.