When you think back to the moon landing you think of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. But, like they say, behind every great man is a great woman. Meet Margaret Hamilton, the woman behind the computer ...

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 ...

Prominent women such as Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg and Yahoo's Marissa Mayer are proving that women are finding their place at the table. But in an op-ed for The New York Times, former programmer ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first programmers weren't men, and the first computers weren't machines. What they were, in both cases, were women. SEE ALSO: The female mentors making a difference in Silicon Valley Women's many ...

Find out what it takes to get into the gaming industry Equality, feminism, human rights…whatever you want to call it, the fact stands that women are often treated as less than men. Even if they aren’t ...

Since her 20-year-old daughter told her she was dropping her computer science major in college, Robin Hauser Reynolds has made it her mission to understand why the coding industry can be so ...