Programming was not always such a manly field, by the way. It was
originally a field for women, and not just because it was invented by
one, Ada Lovelace, in the 1840s. The human "computers" on the atomic
bomb project at Los Alamos were women; so were the "Eniac girls"
coding for John von Neumann in the 1940s.
[Vikram] Chandra [in
Geek Sublime] recounts the
"masculinization" of the industry through male-oriented aptitude tests
that led to an influx of what one analyst called "often egocentric,
slightly neurotic" programmers....