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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: Towards ...

Early pioneers in computer science were women. Women like Grace Hopper, Jean Bartik, Dame Stephanie Shirley and Lynn Conway, were among the first programmers as the field emerged, and left a lasting ...

The center supports female students in computer science, information science, computer engineering, and information studies. Women in the center’s program live together on a designated floor of a ...

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. Women who ...

Siemens Healthineers unveiled its Digital Ecosystem, a digital platform for healthcare, services and solutions providers. Westborough, Mass.-based eClinicalWorks deployed CommonWell Health Alliance ...

As sexual harassment scandals make waves across politics, media and entertainment, the technology industry is grappling with its own sexism problem. Female entrepreneurs and VC partners speak about ...

The world is full of professions and industries in which men dominate. But there’s only one job that used to be completely dominated by women, and has since been taken over by men. That’s computer ...

A new study of computer science students suggests that a confidence gap exists between men and women in software development The study was done by Piazza, a social learning platform used by college ...

Mary Clare Coombs, née Blood, born 4 February 1929, has died following complications arising after a Covid-19 infection. Coombs originally joined Lyons & Co in 1952 as a management trainee, following ...

The Innovators, Walter Isaacson's new book, tells the stories of the people who created modern computers. Women, who are now a minority in... The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech ...