Indeed. My personal pet theory is that this combination (expensive + unprofitable) might have been why so many early pioneers of computing were female in the first place.
> My personal pet theory is that this combination (expensive + unprofitable) might have been why so many early pioneers of computing were female in the first place.
That doesn't make any sense. Just 10 minutes before you've claimed that computing became male-dominated because it was expensive:
> That the field became male-dominated once computing became simultaneously expensive and highly profitable should be entirely unsurprising.
and now you claim that it was female-dominated at first because it was expensive?
