In an era when tech bros are ruining everything it's good to remember that before 1980s marketing attempted to drive women out of computing they pioneered it.

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In an era when tech bros are ruining everything it's good to remember that before 1980s marketing attempted to drive women out of computing they pioneered it.

#InternationalWomensDay #computing #computerscience #computerhistory

16 Remarkable Women Programmers Who Transformed the Tech World

The Grace Hopper Program (www.gracehopper.com)

Without This Working Mom And Computer Scientist, We Wouldn't Have Put A Man On The Moon

The first computer programmer at MIT hired for the Apollo missions, Margaret Hamilton helped develop the software that landed humans on the moon.

All That's Interesting (allthatsinteresting.com)

The Secret History of Women in Coding

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

(web.archive.org)