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No need to promote sex-based divisiveness.

From your own link:

"So the French mathematician Alexis-Claude Clairaut decided to break the work up—by dividing the calculations among several people. In 1757, he sat down with two friends, the young astronomer Jérôme-Joseph Lalande and Nicole-Reine Lepaute, a clockmaker’s wife with a penchant for numbers. ... The age of human computers began."

"By the 19th century, scientists and governments were beginning to collect reams of data that needed to be processed, particularly in astronomy, navigation and surveying. So they began breaking their calculations down into tiny basic math problems and hiring gangs of people to solve them. The work wasn’t always hard, though it required precision and an ability to work for long hours. Mostly, the computers were young men."

"But by the late 19th century, some scientists realized that hiring women could reduce the cost of computation. The growth of education and middle-class prosperity had produced a generation of young women trained in math. So when the Harvard Observatory decided to process years of astronomic data it had gathered using its telescope, it assembled one all-female team of computers."

In this case, I read the substitution as increasing visibility rather than divisiveness, but I get your point: women are first-class people too.

Right. I was conflicted about whether I should draw attention to this or not. In the end I felt there exists a lack of knowledge/appreciation of the contribution made by women computers.

My uneducated guess is that the notion of computers being mostly female comes from the WWII era.