>>11694761what coding did women do though? did they design any algorithms? did they design any programs? or were they merely told what to program and all they had to do was follow a set of instructions word for word? for example, women programmed the computers for Apollo, but they didn't actually write the programs. Men wrote the programs. The women just threaded wire through the thousands little rings in the magnetic memory to set the bits appropriately. not exactly something to be proud of.