Turing Award Winner Fran Allen on changing role of women in computing. (From Coders at Work)
Seibel: You also mentioned before that when you started, people thought women would be good programmers because women were thought to be detail-oriented. These days the conventional wisdom is that it’s men who have a bizarre ability to focus on things, usually to the detriment of everything else, and that’s why most programmers are men.
Allen: Right.