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[[File:Ssdd.png|thumb|right|150px|<center>Female with masculine characteristics operating an early computer</center>]] | [[File:Ssdd.png|thumb|right|150px|<center>Female with masculine characteristics operating an early computer</center>]] | ||
Feminists hold up female engineers such as Margaret Hamilton, as 'powerful' examples of women being "pioneers".<ref>https://fstdt.com/QBYG.YC9QZF8J#comments</ref> These feminists usually ignore the fact that these women were still only a tiny minority. They also ignore that engineering such as computer engineering was not seen as proper academic work, but subordinate to physics and mathematics.<ref>http://www.bu.edu/eng/about/dean-lutchen/engineering-is-not-science/</ref> Also early computer engineering had an overlap with data entry and textile work, which were traditionally female domains.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#There_is_no_significant_gender_disparity_in_STEM_graduates_by_sex_in_the_U.S</ref> | [[Feminism|Feminists]] hold up female engineers such as Margaret Hamilton, as 'powerful' examples of women being "pioneers".<ref>https://fstdt.com/QBYG.YC9QZF8J#comments</ref> These feminists usually ignore the fact that these women were still only a tiny minority. They also ignore that engineering such as computer engineering was not seen as proper academic work, but subordinate to physics and mathematics.<ref>http://www.bu.edu/eng/about/dean-lutchen/engineering-is-not-science/</ref> Also early computer engineering had an overlap with data entry and textile work, which were traditionally female domains.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#There_is_no_significant_gender_disparity_in_STEM_graduates_by_sex_in_the_U.S</ref> | ||
Many of these women often also received substantial male aid and patronage, or were even posthumously given credit for work they didn't play a large role in by eager feminists, e.g., Ada Lovelace, who is often claimed to be the first computer programmer in history, was likely predated by her confidant Charles Babbage in this accomplishment as he constructed the machine, and there is no actual evidence that she contributed in any substantial way to Babbage's work in this regard.<ref>http://robroy.dyndns.info/collier/ch3.html</ref> Moreover, she only published minor theoretical works which were never put into practice.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Yn3i-DMKw&feature=youtu.be&t=9m19s</ref> | Many of these women often also received substantial male aid and patronage, or were even posthumously given credit for work they didn't play a large role in by eager feminists, e.g., Ada Lovelace, who is often claimed to be the first computer programmer in history, was likely predated by her confidant Charles Babbage in this accomplishment as he constructed the machine, and there is no actual evidence that she contributed in any substantial way to Babbage's work in this regard.<ref>http://robroy.dyndns.info/collier/ch3.html</ref> Moreover, she only published minor theoretical works which were never put into practice.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Yn3i-DMKw&feature=youtu.be&t=9m19s</ref> | ||