@JohnMashey @lisamelton Wow, thank you for chiming in with those stories and links! Always surprised to see people from Bell Labs (I once even used PWB Shell :'D) here on the Fediverse, but it's amazing to hear all those stories from back then. They do serve as a great historical artifact!
I've also heard about
https://notabletechnicalwomen.org/
and the GDocs
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sxr33IeAYKtxbfVo2b3KKNiIr2OI64cT4ZohEJNi43U/edit#gid=0
today for the first time, an amazing project to collect more of those hidden women in tech. I'll try to fire of some project at our local queerfeminist hackspace to maybe converge all those DBs and do some Wikipedia Editathon or such.
@ljrk @lisamelton
Well, you go far back if you used (my) PWB shell!
That originated at Bell Labs Piscataway, ~1000 software people, largest concentration in BTL, so highest % women and an advocacy group, the Women’s Rights Caucus (I was a member). Younger guys were happy to have more smart women, we’d gone to school with them, some of the older guys (mostly EEs, ie very low female %) occasionally needed education.
AWC had a NJ chapter that invited me speak
https://www.awc-hq.org/home.html