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

"The 1968 career guide Your Career in Computers suggested that people who enjoyed following recipes from a cookbook might have an aptitude for programming."

Abbate documents the 1968 career guide's cookbook analogy as an example of how programming aptitude was marketed to potential female recruits.

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Source title Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing
Source authors Janet Abbate
Source year 2012
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