A mystery to me

When I first started in the software business in the early 1960s, some of the best programmers were women. Not only did you find a fair number of women designing systems and writing code but you also had them as managers. Somehow, from 1980 or so the number of women in the field dropped. I've often wondered why as the money was good, the field was exciting and - as far as I could tell - there was no male chauvinism.

Now, an attempt to bring women into the field is newsworthy enough for the NY Times.