Are most programmers male?

[Kristian Ovaska]

mertz at gnosis.cx (David Mertz, Ph.D.):
>I've reflected on this a bit lately.  It's kinda sad about the
>overwhelming male bias of programming and related areas.

I have read that in the early years of computers, in the 50's and
possibly 60's, a considerable proportion of programmers were female.
In fact, if I remember correctly what I've read, there was a time when
over 50% were female! That's a huge contrast to today.

-- 
Kristian Ovaska <kristian.ovaska at helsinki.fi>