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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Attracting more women to computer science is invariably a good thing. Nationally, women earn 57 percent of bachelor's degrees, but only 12 percent of computer science degrees, according to a 2009 ...

Pot roast or computer programming — both, Cosmo told its readers, could be women’s work. I first came across a mention of that article earlier this summer, when I was working in recruiting at ...

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.

Legacy was an expansion of an Alabama program that began in 2019. Initial results showed 72% of 71 of the Black girls who participated received a score of 3 or higher on the AP test.

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 ...