In this excerpt from "The Computer Boys Take Over," historian Nathan Ensmenger explains that the first computer programmers were women because managers expected programming to be low-skill clerical ...

Two women operating ENIAC U.S. Army 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.

The Innovators, Walter Isaacson's new book, tells the stories of the people who created modern computers. Women, who are now a minority in computer science, played an outsize role in that history.

What happens when your mother was called ‘the princess of parallelograms’ and your father one of the best poets history has ...

Pot roast or computer programming — both, Cosmo told its readers, could be women’s work. I first came across a mention of that article earlier this summer, when I was working in recruiting at ...

2. The first computer programmers: The Women of ENIAC. The idea that computation and programming was tedious women's work extended into the 20th century (right up until men found out how cool it was).

While early women programming pioneers Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper have taken their place in the annals of computer history, Kleiman shows us that there were other women programmers — like the ...

Computer programmers have transformed the way we live and advancements in technology are only set to accelerate. ... Was the world’s first computer programmer a woman? By FARID WAHAB. True Or Not ...

"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 ...

Charlene Roberts-Hayden, pioneering Black woman in computer programming, dies at 86 ... Ms. Roberts-Hayden was proficient at a high level with the Ada computer programming language, ...