sexism in Technology

tags:: #sexism

• a lot of work in computing was done by women who classically recieved little to no credit
• "I would like to say right here... what our experience has been with young ladies' help; the service is very much superior to that of boys and men. They are steadier, do not drink beer and are always on hand". - Alexander Graham Bell
• lack of Ada Lovelace
• women programmed the Mauchly & ENIAC and weren't credited it for it
  • this reflects how Ada Lovelace did the theoretical work of figuring out how to use an Analytical Engine if it where ever built while as Charles Babbage worked on the physical side of creating the device itself
• Grace Hopper was also largely uncredited for her work
• Women created modern programming
• women also helped with
  • the business end of advertising computers
  • the IT side of it
  • and more
• the management roles where coded male and there was a social pressure to remove the female workers as they held power in the form of knowledge
  • the women trained their male replacements
    • this was a direct instruction from the higher ups
  • Women where socially pushed out of the field in order to make way for "upper clas white men"