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When women stopped coding (Classic)

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What Made Women Give Up Computer Science?

Steve Hent: How did women go from being the center of the computing world to being sidelined? Caitlin Kenney: There isn't an easy answer to the question. What was going on in 1984 that made so many women give up on computer science? Today, we try to untangle this mystery in the US labor force.

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