the core skills and personality traits required to be properly good at the job are very much feminine. Precision, diligence, carefully working through a dull task and making sure that things are going to work in all cases... this is still the same set of values of care and diligence that led to people hiring women for the initial software jobs in the first place.

Mmm yay, more gender essentialism explicitly agreeing with 1950s gender stereotypes from this author.