content: In the old days it was that if you could solve the technical problems for the boss, you were a hire and stayed a hire. they hired stutterers with phobias, trannies, talking cats, blind and touretsy engineers as well as drunkards, nudists and ex-bank robbers if they delivered hardware, software or contracts. bosses would have hired women, too, and many did, but virtually no woman delivered, so women were rare. that was in the days before micromanagement, so for a project, you got one or more puzzles and 100 days to solve them. woman were pretty much a no-show in those days. there was a lot to learn, invent and improvise.