Author and former Salon columnist Ellen Ullman wrote her first computer programs in 1978 and spent 20 years as a programmer and software engineer. While Silicon Valley is not exactly known for being a ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite the fact that a woman won high-tech's most prestigious award this year, the industry woefully lacks in training and recruiting women into engineering and programming, reports USAToday. IBM's ...

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 ...

"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, ...

Silicon Valley has a woman problem, and now it's our problem, too. Women make up 57 percent of college grads but only 12 percent of the engineers at the top 84 tech firms, according to one recent ...

TIFF will have 13 women and nine men picking films for its September event as the wider Canadian industry drives toward equality by 2020. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief The Toronto Film Festival ...