Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?

When computer programming was ‘women’s work’Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include links to sources, research and statistics that were omitted from the original publication.

Claire Shorall thinks one simple change can close the gender gap in computer science: Make everyone do it.

At coding schools across the country, there's much less of a gender imbalance than in computer science programs and at tech companies. Why?

The first all-women hackathon in Lebanon saw coders coming together to develop their programming skills - and much more ...

Opinion: coding was once considered a female job and women were responsible for creating many innovative computer programming languages ...

More than 30 girls in Toronto got an introduction to the world of computer coding this weekend by building an interactive game through a program called Scatch.

It emphasised the real-world impact of programming, to appeal to more practical-minded young women. And the admissions process was changed to no longer reward teenage coders.

Breaking down barriers: How coding workshops can help encourage women in computer science by Lindsey Boisvin on May 31, 2015 at 7:34 am ...

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 ...