Use the arrows above to read the stories behind 9 programming languages that have had a significant impact over the years and the women who created them. See also: Superclass: 14 of the world’s ...

Today, the computer programming field is dominated by men. But that wasn’t always the case. In fact, for a long time, computer programming was a women’s field. At Gender News, Brenda D. Frink ...

Starting in World War II, women formed the backbone of the early computer programming industry--until they were gradually edged out in the 1980s. A timeline.

The Innovators, Walter Isaacson's new book, tells the stories of the people who created modern computers. Women, who are now a minority in computer science, played an outsize role in that history.

That’s computer programming. In the 1940s, 50s and 60s, some 90 per cent of computer programmers and systems analysts were female. IBM talked about ‘girl hours’ rather than ‘man hours ...

For example, in a recent paper, he cites the first written manual on computer programming, published in 1947. The guide described how “planners” would think about the problems they wanted the ...

Women were the first computer programmers, then men crowded them out By Stephen Mihm Updated August 23, 2017 — 4.54pm first published August 22, 2017 — 11.46am ...

The University of Windsor is hoping to equip young women with one of the most “in-demand” skills by offering a free computer programming workshop. The four-hour Go CODE Girl workshop, hosted ...

According to the National Science Foundation, in 1995, 29 percent of bachelor's degrees in computer science were awarded to women; by 2012, the most recent year for which NSF data is available ...

A UK university is trying to get women to apply for a computer games programming degree. The University of Derby is launching a programming course and has had 106 applicants - all men. So it is making ...