Women in tech

Here is the glimpse of how women has contributed towards the technological invention and innovation over the years. Women in tech: The history, today and tomorrow.

1. WOMEN IN TECH
THE HISTORY, TODAY AND TOMORROW

2. A MAN'S WORLD?

+ Although in the beginning, ‘computers’ were meant to be a woman’s job,
the breakthroughs in the field made the field too successful for men to sit
up and take notice

© The contribution of women in tech has often been an unfair footnote in
the journey of man’s technological advancements

© But the fact remains that the history of women in tech is way longer (and
cooler) than most of us know

3. THE FIRST PROGRAMMER WAS A WOMAN!

© Did you know that Ada Lovelace was the first person to publish a comput-
er algorithm?

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© She recognized the immense potential of computers to go beyond mere
calculating or number-crunching, while many others, including Charles
Babbage himself, focused only on those capabilities

© She anticipated the implications of modern computing almost one hundred C
years before they were realized

4. THE HISTORIAS

SCROLL THROUGH FOR A BRIEF HISTORY OF WOMEN IN TECH DURING ITS NASCENT STAGES

5. WOMEN WHO 'RECODED' TECH HISTORY

1938 - 1945: The Bletchley Park Coders

1942: The ladies at Moore School of Engineering

1962: Jean E. Sammet

1977 - 1980: Carla Meninsky

05] 1978 - 1984: Carol Shaw

1985: Radia Perlman

These are just some of the many women who helped advance the field of tech to its
current glory. Scroll through to learn about their contribution

6. 1938 — 1945 THE BLETCHLEY PARK CODERS

According to the official historian of British Intelligence, the decoding
work done at Bletchley Park shortened the World war Il by two to four
years

Wane Hughes processed information leading to the last battle of
the Bismarck
Margaret Rock solved the Abwehr break, a German code

Ruth Briggs, a German scholar, worked within the Naval Sec!
and was known as one of the best cryptographers

7. 1942 THE LADIES AT MOORE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

These women too, assisted in the war by making crucial calculations
for firing tables and bombing trajectories

They maneuvered over 3000 switches and 80 tons of hardware
to program the ENIAC by hand

8. 1962 JEAN E. SAMMET

© In 1968, Jean E. Sammet became the first woman to be awarded a Ph.D.
in Computer Science

© She was responsible for developing the first ever computer language,
COBOL

© Sammet taught one of the earliest graduate-level courses in computer
programming in the Applied Mathematics department of Adelphi College

9. 1977 — 1980 CARLA MENINSKY

© Carla Meninsky was an employee at Atari, Inc.

+ She co-wrote Indy 500 with Ed Riddle and also created the popular Star
Raiders and Dodge ‘Em

+ Meninsky worked for Electronic Arts (EA) and other game publishers and
eventually started her own successful contract programming company

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10. 1978 — 1984 CAROL SHAW

© Carol Shaw, along with Meninsky, is known to be the first female
designers in the video games industry

© Her first game was River Raid (1982) for the Atari 2600, which was
inspired by the 1981 arcade game Scramble

11. 1985 RADIA PERLMAN

© Radia Perlman is known as the Mother of the Internet

© She invented the spanning-tree protocol, a network protocol
that ensures a loop-free topology for any bridged LAN

© This is fundamental to the operation of network bridges, a key
element in connecting computers to the internet

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13. Technology still hasn’t shaken its reputation for being a male-dominated
field

But a few women at the top today are questioning status quo simply by

doing what they do best - work

14. URSULA BURNS - CHAIR-CEO, XEROX

© In July 2009, Burns became the first African-American woman CEO
to head a Fortune 500 company

© She started at Xerox in 1980 as an intern and climbed through the
ranks for the next 30 years

© Forbes rated her the 22nd most powerful woman in the world in
2014

15. WEILI DAI - CO FOUNDER-PRESIDENT,
MARVELL TECHNOLOGY GROUP LTD

© Chinese-born American businesswoman Weili Dai is president and
co-founder of Marvell Technology Group

e She is the sole female co-founder of a major semiconductor company

© She is considered one of the most successful female entrepreneurs yo

worldwide, with an estimated net worth of over $1 billion
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16. ELIZABETH IORNS — CEO, SCIENCE EXCHANGE

© lorns was a breast cancer researcher with a Ph.D. from the university of
Miami

© She founded Science Exchange partly to address her frustrations as a
researcher trying to work with far flung collaborators

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outsource science experiments without compromising in time or quality

17. JULIE SCHOENFELD — ENTREPRENEUR/ENGINEER

© If GM brings you self-driving cars faster than you thought possible, thank
Julie Schoenfeld

© In 2013, she started Strobe, an engineering company that works in radar
and communications

© In October 2017, Strobe was acquired by GM in a bid to hasten their
Cruise Automation operations

18. TOMORROW

19. The main obstacle to gender inclusion in STEM is the fact that
Girls are not encouraged to aspire to a calling in tech

Some women have set about to change this scenario by encour-
aging little kids and girls and women everywhere to learn and
enjoy technology

20. SAMANTHA JOHN — CO-FOUNDER, HOPSCOTCH

e At the age of 26, Samantha John is a top class programmer and the
co-founder of Hopscotch

© Through Hopscotch, she enables kids to program their own games
rn at HOPSCOTCH

21. HEATHER PAYNE — FOUNDER, LADIES LEARNING CODE

e Heather Payne founded Ladies Learning Code and HackerYou, a platform
to learn coding, design and other digital skills

e Her goal is to make learning code more accessible to young women and
girls

e Her team also runs Girls Learning Code, an all-girls technology camp in
Toronto

22. KATHRYN PARSONS — FOUNDER, DECODED

© Parsons founded Decoded with a mission to make people digitally literate

© Decoded boasts of teaching people to code in just a day!

+ As of 2011, the company had taught over tens of thousands of people to
code

23. GIRLS WHO CODE

© Girls Who Code was founded by Reshma Saujani, an American laywer
and politician

© Saujani came up with the idea of creating the organization during her
run for the United States Congress when she noticed that schools in her
campaign route lacked girls in computer science classrooms

© There are now over 1500 Girls Who Code clubs across America and the d = ía i

organization aims to teach one million girls to code by 2020

24. Sources

e http://time.com/4892094/google-diversity-history-memo/
e https://techcrunch.com/gallery/a-look-at-42-women-in-tech-who-crushed-it-in-2017/

e https://www.themuse.com/advice/the-history-of-wom-
en-in-tech-is-longer-and-cooler-than-you-know

e https://insights.dice.com/2016/03/14/10-famous-women-in-tech-history/
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