Early pioneers in computer science were women. Women like Grace Hopper, Jean Bartik, Dame Stephanie Shirley and Lynn Conway, were among the first programmers as the field emerged, and left a lasting ...

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Only about 20 percent of all computer programmers are women, but one pioneering CEO is trying to change that. Blazing Cloud's Sarah Allen hopes... Blazing The Trail For Female Programmers This story ...

A new study of computer science students suggests that a confidence gap exists between men and women in software development The study was done by Piazza, a social learning platform used by college ...

From the time social media apps went mobile and tied social networks to GPS, a lot of us have gotten, well, creeped out. Being able to locate friends and family with radar-like precision on one’s cell ...

Fun fact: Google Translate seems to think there are no women coders. See for yourself: Credit: Emre Şarbak What’s going on here? Both Malay and Turkish are gender-neutral languages, which means nouns ...

The latest step in the ongoing conversation about the gender gap in tech came on Tuesday when Google announced that it had fired engineer James Damore for “perpetuating gender stereotypes” in an ...

As one of Cinefamily’s earliest employees, Suki-Rose Simakis programmed what she describes as its first female-oriented screening series, a monthly pajama party that sought to create a safe space by ...

Computer programmers, some of the oldest workers in the tech industry, have the largest gender pay gap compared to all other professions across all industries, according to a new study. Women who ...

If your image of a computer programmer is a young man, there's a good reason: It's true. Recently, many big tech companies revealed how few of their female employees worked in programming and ...

The Innovators, Walter Isaacson's new book, tells the stories of the people who created modern computers. Women, who are now a minority in... The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech ...