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 ...

In 1984, 37 percent of computer-science majors were women. What happened? The tech industry's image shifted rapidly in the 1980s and ’90s, and society began to associate programming with men.

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.

By 1967, there were so many female programmers that Cosmopolitan magazine published an article about “The Computer Girls,” accompanied by pictures of beehived women at work on computers that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The computer or phone you're using right now exists because of the women who made it possible. Before there were computers, calculators or programming languages, these 10 women laid the technical ...

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 ...

A lot of computing pioneers were women. For decades, the number of women in computer science was growing. But in 1984, something changed.Subscribe to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr ...