It's really interesting how back in the 50s-70s, programming was considered boring, clerical women's work and the architecture side of things was considered men's work. The attitude at the time was that the men did the real work by writing flowcharts and the women were doing menial labour by turning those flowcharts into computer instructions. A lot of these women in the footnotes seem to be a footnote because of this consideration.
The Computer Girls is another interesting article about this attitude and how programming became masculised:
The Computer Girls is another interesting article about this attitude and how programming became masculised:
http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/nensmeng/files/ensmenger-gende...