Before brogramming, table flipping, and beyond
Not that I have any desire to go back to collared shirts, ties, and dresses, but the author caused me to wonder if it wouldn&#x27;t do something to dial the &quot;frat house&quot; dial back a notch. Because, gawd, does it get old.<p>I gather that I&#x27;m about the same age as the author. And she&#x27;s right, there was a time that we worked side-by-side with the wimmin folk and didn&#x27;t think a thing of it. Hey, it was a brave new world of software, and in that brave new world gender didn&#x27;t matter anymore. I remember it as a time of software being a good place for women to go because it paid well and it didn&#x27;t matter as much as other fields if you were &quot;a girl&quot;. It worked out well for my Mom around that era.<p>But I don&#x27;t know when it changed and <i>why</i> it changed, so I don&#x27;t have good answers for the current situation. But things have changed for sure.