Comment by bsder

> The first generation of programmers counted more women than men.

I have heard this before, but you need to back that up with more qualifiers.

There were a lot more female plug technicians because women were trained as phone operators. There were a lot more female keypunch operators because women were trained in typing to be secretaries. However, most people would not refer to those as "programmers" like we would definitely say for someone like Margaret Hamilton.