The only thing I disagreed with is that you said they were being done a disservice by the claim, which if true, would've been remarked on in the video. The only thing I disagreed with was you speaking as to how they should feel about this turn of events. You can argue all day about any pedantic point, that's fine, but I wanted you to stop speaking as to what they should feel when they quite clearly spoke for themselves.
But
does the video even address the claim whatsoever? Nothing that you've said even implies that the video brings up the modern claim "programming was seen as a woman's job back then". You're being vague enough that I can tell that I'd watch 67 minutes looking for an actual quotation, and there would be none to give. If nobody in the video even brings up the
modern "programming was seen as a woman's job" narrative, then how could it be relevant?
"How they should feel about the turn of events", i.e. their achievements is one thing, and what I'm pretty sure the entire video is about. But I'm talking about something else, which is that people have recast it to be one of those "gender is fluid" arguments similar to the "pink used to be for
boys and blue used to be for
girls" line of reasoning. That makes it sound like it was a career women were naturally encouraged to do. But that's not actually the case, it was an
uphill battle for those women to open up the field for other women. Which is why I'm stating that the modern meme it's devolved into doesn't do the reality justice. Kind of like claiming "women were
given the right to vote in 1920", without mentioning the suffragettes. Women weren't
given the right to vote, nor was programming a career that was handed to women in the 1940s. They fought an uphill battle against sexism in both cases, they weren't
given an inch.