In the early days doing basic arithmetic to count up data was woman’s work because it was a low skill job that only required a person to sit down and know basic 4th grade math.<p>Female programmers where just people who would rewire the computers do to arithmetic that the mathematicians &quot;programmed&quot;. They did not write the algorithms nor did they know anything more than the basics of &quot;this plug does this&quot;. their job was taking a work sheet and making the machine do what the work sheet instructed them to do. 
as computers automated this the female &quot;programmers&quot; where no longer needed to do this low skill job 
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;3&#x2F;3b&#x2F;Two_women_operating_ENIAC.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;3&#x2F;3b&#x2F;Two_wome...</a><p>Another example of females doing low skill work that seems technical are phone workers in the 50s 
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;5&#x2F;50&#x2F;Telephone_operators,_1952.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;5&#x2F;50&#x2F;Telephon...</a><p>Due to modern programming jobs being simple maintenance work women are being pushed into the job to get them to lower the wages of male workers.<p>If you are a male who is a programmer or female with a husband who is a programmer you are cheering for lower wages