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TIL that the first computer programmer was a woman. Her name was Ada Lovelace.
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this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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Forget that, most of the first computers were women.
Google it. A 'computer' was a person employed to perform computations, and was a profession which generally employed women
Yep computing was considered secretarial work. That’s why only women did that job since the men got higher ranking jobs.