PROVING GROUND: The Untold Story of the Six Women who Programmed the World’s First Supercomputer. By Kathy Kleiman. Grand Central Publishing. 320 pages. $30. When the world’s first general-purpose, ...

Years before software programmers sat poised over their keyboards in sleek, expansive tech offices, women built the foundations of modern computer programming— in less-than-glamorous conditions. For ...

Ada Lovelace was a visionary who first recognized the potential of computer programming. Almost two centuries on, six women in computer science and technology reflect on their experiences in the field ...

Silicon Valley is unquestionably a boys’ club. And the number of women in computer science has been declining. In 1985, approximately 15,000 women and 27,000 men earned bachelor’s degrees in computer ...

Phanuelle Manuel said having a fellow Black woman as a mentor helped her visualize a future in computer science. Manuel, and hundreds of other high school students, received training, mentorship and ...

The Women in Tech Initiative at Case Western Reserve University is pleased to announce a $100,000 matching grant for the upcoming academic school year from double alumnus and craigslist founder Craig ...

Only 20 percent of computer science and 22 percent of engineering undergraduate degrees in the U.S. go to women. Women are missing out on flexible, lucrative and high-status careers. Society is also ...

“It’s just like planning a dinner,” the renowned computer scientist Grace Hopper once quipped about computing in a 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan. “You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ...

In the United States, women make up 57% of the labor force and almost 51% of the population. However, despite these numbers, women only represent 26% of professional computing jobs. And if that ...

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