When Women Stopped Coding : Planet Money : NPR
▻http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding
The share of women in computer science started falling at roughly the same moment when personal computers started showing up in U.S. homes in significant numbers.
These early personal computers weren’t much more than toys. (...) And these toys were marketed almost entirely to men and boys.
This idea that computers are for boys became a narrative. It became the story we told ourselves about the computing revolution. It helped define who geeks were, and it created techie culture.
(...) This was a big deal when those kids got to college.