![]() ![]() Drawn from hundreds of interviews with developers, Coders is an immersive account of who coders are, what they do and how their work shapes our reality. The feature is an excerpt from Thompson’s forthcoming book, “ Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World,” out March 26, 2019. In a February New York Times Magazine feature, “The Secret History of Women in Coding,” journalist Clive Thompson uncovers the little-known history of the women who shaped the early software industry, and disentangles the complex of web of social, cultural and economic factors that led to programming becoming a field dominated by men. “It really amazed me that these men were programmers,” she said later, “because I thought it was women’s work!” In 1953, a woman named Elsie Shutt accepted a job as a programmer at defense contractor Raytheon, where she was astonished to find that the programming workforce was about 50% women and 50% men. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory employees, 1940s ![]()
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