Ever wonder why women were the first programmers?

Knitting was considered women's work, and this is what they were doing when knitting.

Women were working with register machines and boolean logic for generations, completely unnoticed by men.

Women were coding in plain sight for generations.

The first computers were humans, it was a job title.

The first computers were women, it was literally something they'd been doing since childhood.

Check this out: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory

ROM in the Apollo computers was literally knitted.

It was programmed by women, headed by a woman, and physically constructed by women.