Few expected that computing would lead to a career, though. The idea was, mostly, to use the women before they married. Astronomer L. J. Comrie wrote a 1944 Mathematical Gazette article entitled “Careers for Girls,” in which he declared that female computers were useful “in the years before they (or many of them) graduate to married life and become experts with the housekeeping accounts!”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/history-human-computers-180972202/

Allegedly, women used to do tedious math calculations before electronic computers