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 ...

Several women made significant contributions in computing including the all-female programming team for ENIAC (the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) in 1946 – Jean Bartik, Betty ...

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 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 WORKSHOP introducing more women to computer programming has been heralded as a great success and more events could now follow in the future. More than 30 women, with varying levels of experience ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...