ROLE OF WOMEN!

In the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, men often filled the more prestigious and better paying hardware engineering roles, but often delegated the writing of software to women. Grace Hopper, Jamie Fenton and many other unsung women filled many programming jobs during the first several decades of software engineering. Today, many fewer women work in software engineering than in other professions, a complex problem related to sexual discrimination, cyberculture, education, and individual identity, and one which many academic and professional organizations are trying hard to solve.