Historical accounts describe ENIAC programming as initially perceived as routine or menial work, which may have contributed to assigning the task to women.

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 6: SCAFFOLDING FOR INFLUENCE Post-Industrial Craft

"Historical accounts describe ENIAC programming as initially perceived as routine or menial work, which may have contributed to assigning the task to women."

Isaacson describes early ENIAC programming as initially regarded as routine or menial compared with hardware engineering and links that lower status to its assignment to women.

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Source title How Women Changed the World of Computing: 'The Innovators' by Isaacson

Source authors Walter Isaacson

Source year 2014

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