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"Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the Worlds First Modern Computer" by by Kathy Kleiman. When the world's first general-purpose, programmable, electronic computer, ...

This story is part of our series, The Changing Lives of Women. Sarah Allen has been the only woman on a team of computer programmers a few times in the more than two decades she has worked in the ...

In the early 1960s, a British woman named Stephanie “Steve” Shirley founded a software startup called Freelance Programmers. Shirley’s company allowed its workers to program from home (as long as they ...

A new study from Glassdoor, the online job information firm, shows that female programmers are making far less than their male counterparts, when compared to other fields with pay inequities. The ...

Code Liberation Foundation plans to “woman up” and inspire aspiring female programmers and gamemakers. The four women of Code Liberation Foundation got together with the aim of providing safe spaces ...

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, ...