Comments on: Invisibility or the spotlight? http://geekfeminism.org/2009/08/23/invisibility-or-the-spotlight/ Women, feminism, and geek culture Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:40:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mary http://geekfeminism.org/2009/08/23/invisibility-or-the-spotlight/comment-page-1/#comment-452 Mary Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:02:31 +0000 http://geekfeminism.org/?p=528#comment-452 In addition to Mackenzie's info (and the sum of these should not be regarded as the complete story either) see <a href="http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.9960" rel="nofollow">the women of Bletchley Park</a>. In addition to Mackenzie’s info (and the sum of these should not be regarded as the complete story either) see the women of Bletchley Park.

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]]> By: Mackenzie http://geekfeminism.org/2009/08/23/invisibility-or-the-spotlight/comment-page-1/#comment-445 Mackenzie Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:22:38 +0000 http://geekfeminism.org/?p=528#comment-445 All 6 ENIAC programmers (Betty Jean Jennings, Betty Snyder, Fran Bilas, Kay McNulty, Marlyn Wescoff, Ruth Lichterman) were women. My laptop is named Betty after two of them. COBOL and compilers were invented by Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper. All 6 ENIAC programmers (Betty Jean Jennings, Betty Snyder, Fran Bilas, Kay McNulty, Marlyn Wescoff, Ruth Lichterman) were women. My laptop is named Betty after two of them. COBOL and compilers were invented by Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper.

]]> By: Naraht http://geekfeminism.org/2009/08/23/invisibility-or-the-spotlight/comment-page-1/#comment-444 Naraht Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:43:48 +0000 http://geekfeminism.org/?p=528#comment-444 Do you have evidence beyond Ada Lovelace for computer languages being historically female-dominated? I had always had the impression that she was the exception rather than the rule. Do you have evidence beyond Ada Lovelace for computer languages being historically female-dominated? I had always had the impression that she was the exception rather than the rule.

]]> By: jadelennox http://geekfeminism.org/2009/08/23/invisibility-or-the-spotlight/comment-page-1/#comment-442 jadelennox Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:20:10 +0000 http://geekfeminism.org/?p=528#comment-442 We have to stop internalizing this belief that we have no past as geeks, too. Last night I was talking to my mother about technology (prompted, in fact, by me telling her about a discussion on this blog last week), and she told me that she only fell into computers by accident in about 1979. When I asked her, "When we you doing all of that punchcard programming, then?" she responded, "Oh, that was back at my first job, in 1960." As a teenage girl and a school dropout, she was programming punchcards by day and taking calculus and trigonometry classes at night,and she doesn't think that was programming. We have to stop internalizing this belief that we have no past as geeks, too. Last night I was talking to my mother about technology (prompted, in fact, by me telling her about a discussion on this blog last week), and she told me that she only fell into computers by accident in about 1979.

When I asked her, “When we you doing all of that punchcard programming, then?” she responded, “Oh, that was back at my first job, in 1960.”

As a teenage girl and a school dropout, she was programming punchcards by day and taking calculus and trigonometry classes at night,and she doesn’t think that was programming.

]]> By: Mackenzie http://geekfeminism.org/2009/08/23/invisibility-or-the-spotlight/comment-page-1/#comment-434 Mackenzie Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:18:27 +0000 http://geekfeminism.org/?p=528#comment-434 Yeah that's the one I meant. Failed memory. Yeah that’s the one I meant. Failed memory.

]]> By: Mary http://geekfeminism.org/2009/08/23/invisibility-or-the-spotlight/comment-page-1/#comment-433 Mary Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:09:27 +0000 http://geekfeminism.org/?p=528#comment-433 <a href="http://www.sourcecode.de/node/304" rel="nofollow">Ubuntu is sexy</a>? That's when she joined Planet though. Ubuntu is sexy? That’s when she joined Planet though.

]]> By: Mackenzie http://geekfeminism.org/2009/08/23/invisibility-or-the-spotlight/comment-page-1/#comment-432 Mackenzie Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:53:17 +0000 http://geekfeminism.org/?p=528#comment-432 My first thought was of when someone was "the first woman to _____ in Ubuntu" and someone (forget who now) posted a blog post like "OMG there's a girl!" My first thought was of when someone was “the first woman to _____ in Ubuntu” and someone (forget who now) posted a blog post like “OMG there’s a girl!”

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