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In 1955, she married John Coombs, himself briefly a computer programmer on the LEO team, who died in 2012. Together they had a daughter, Anne, who died aged six.

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).

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.

That’s computer programming. In the 1940s, 50s and 60s, some 90 per cent of computer programmers and systems analysts were female.

UCLA scholar Jane Margolis has spent four years tracking male and female computer science students. She says the gender gap has not gone away--but she has ideas for closing it.

A road on Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner's Innovations Campus will be named Bartik Drive after Betty Jean Jennings Bartik, a revolutionary female computer programmer, according to The Kansas City Star.

The world urgently needs more female engineers and computer programmers, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has said. UNESCO stated this in its Science Report ...

Ester Gerston and Gloria Ruth Gordon, early programmers working on the ENIAC computer in 1946. Chilen's next career move came from the workshop, where she met a woman who hired her as a programmer.

Programmer motivators are more commonly found at smaller startups, likely due to the online backlash Chinese commerce giants like Alibaba received when advertising similar positions in the past.