Feb 13, 2019 · In the early days of coding, women flocked to programming because it offered more opportunity and reward for merit, more than fields like law. Now software has the closed …

May 3, 2024 · Is programming not a woman's profession? Is this really the case? Learn who was the first programmer and why women stopped dominating development.

Jan 10, 2020 · In the 60s, computer programming was considered women’s work (look at the work of Dorothy Vaughan). The code that send us to the moon was predominantly written by a …

In fact, it was these women who discovered that the code never really worked the first time. Through the story of Mary Allen Wilkes, who became a computer programmer after being …

Oct 18, 2015 · When the first modern computers were invented, women operators were used to set the computers up for each task they were to perform. One of the earliest programmable, …

In 1953, a woman named Elsie Shutt accepted a job as a programmer at defense contractor Raytheon, where she was astonished to find that the programming workforce was about 50% …

Oct 20, 2014 · In the 1960s women made up about 50% of all computer programmers, so what happened? Since her 20-year-old daughter told her she was dropping her computer science …

Even more astonishing is the fact that the first computer programmer in history was a woman, and that programming was once considered a "female" profession par excellence. But how did …

Jan 16, 2020 · Women programmers have played an essential role in the history of programming. As pioneers in software engineering, computer programming, and game design, women …

Sep 1, 2017 · Those women, Kleiman discovered, were the first modern computer coders, or programmers, in the U.S. The two men who had designed the computer, called the ENIAC, …