In the 1940s, the U.S. Army funded the development of the world’s first all-electronic general purpose computer known as the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, or simply ENIAC, which was ...

Women's Royal Naval Service members operate the Colossus Mark 2 machine, which went into operation just before D-Day and provided critical codebreaking for the invasion's success. Photo: National ...

This cover image released by Grand Central Publishing shows "Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer" by Kathy Kleiman. (Grand Central ...

DCFemTech, the umbrella organization for local women-in-tech groups, announced the list of 30 women who will receive the first annual “Powerful Women Programmers” award. “The more the media talks ...

DCFemTech, the coalition group of women-in-tech organizations, announced the winners of their second annual “Powerful Women Programmers” and “Powerful Women Designers” awards on Wednesday. The awards ...

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 ...

About two dozen women sat around tables at downtown coworking space OpenWorks for Greenville's inaugural Women Who Code meeting earlier this month. The group is the latest in a network of more than 60 ...

SAN MARCOSSAN MARCOS — A group of young female hackers got together Saturday to crack something more impenetrable than a security firewall: male dominance of the tech industry. About 60 high school ...

Computer programmers, the media and casual observers alike often debate the question of why there are so few women programmers compared to men. Indeed, only 19 percent of computer science majors are ...

“Without Stack Overflow, I’d be unemployed,” many programmers will tell you, referring to the online forum that helps solve coding problems. The site is built around questions and answers, and ...