Pot roast or computer programming — both, Cosmo told its readers, could be women’s work. I first came across a mention of that article earlier this summer, when I was working in recruiting at ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of ...