Manuela MalasañaMar 9

Reflecting on all the times in my career as a software engineer I have been told that, yes, things were a bit unfair to me as a woman, but that I was being a trailblazer, I was the one discovering and establishing the path that would enable others to follow.

But you go back to the 70s and you see the same number of women programmers, being fed that exact same line
And in the 80s
and the 90s
and so on to today. The "trailblazer" narrative is a lie told by managers to make themselves feel better

Show threadMachine Lord Zero
@Xibanya Trailblazer? My fuckin nan was a punch card op before men decided computers were a man field and started pushing women out.
If someone calls you a trailblazer again, stab them.
Mar 9 at 9:59amWeb
Show threadLudwig VielfrassMar 10

@MachineLordZero @Xibanya can confirm. My aunt was also in the late 60s until the mid 90s. I got into this field myself in the late 80s, well before the internet boom. There were MANY more women in it then, when it was a nice career that you could enjoy a strong middle-class life on. Most of my early mentors were women.

The internet boom came and people could get rich and that’s about the time I saw women really getting squeezed out.