“The early history of programming methods shows how seemingly technical debates can encode social issues such as labor and gender. The assumption that programming would be improved by making it more like engineering was based on the cultural linking of engineering with masculinity and, by extension, with prestige and authority. Rethinking the gendered value system that is embedded in the metaphor of engineering—perhaps by reclaiming women’s understandings of the term—has the potential not only to make computer science and programming more appealing to women but also to benefit the discipline itself.”