This is what happened to Computer Science, too. Hardware Engineering was for "men" and Software was that "weak feminine stuff", but then it became lucrative and MOVE OVER, EVIL WOMEN WITH YOUR LONG NAILS AND WAGGLING TONGUES DESTROYING PRECIOUS COMPUTATIONAL DEVICES!!
I want to read the biography of the men who worked alongside the women at this time. What did they think as all their colleagues disappeared? What did they say? Did they even notice?
Did they even care?