This is a talk about how the first computers were women, they were actually called ‘computers’ as programming was traditionally female clerical work - lowly paid and unrecognised - even though it was complex and completely new, so laboratory owners would, when setting up new projects, say things like: We need three more microscopes and three girls... Their labour freed up the men to do the ‘real’ work.

Tracing the story from 1731 when the Edinburgh Weekly Journal advised young married women to know their husband's income and be a good computer and keep within it until present day, we will see how computers couldn’t have evolved without the first ‘computers’.

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