By the end of the decade, the general demographics of programmers had shifted away from being predominantly women, as they had before the 1940s. Though women accounted for around 30 to 50 percent of computer programmers during the 1960s, few were promoted to leadership roles and women were paid significantly less than their male counterparts. "Cosmopolitan" ran an article in the April 1967 issue about women in programming called "The Computer Girls." Even while magazines such as "Cosmopolitan" saw a bright future for women in computers and computer programming in the 1960s, the reality was that women were still being marginalized.