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Women’s Knowledge Digital Library

Changing the Curve: Women in Computing

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Exploring the history and influence of women in computing and reviews the state of the gap between women and men in computing today.

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More than 150 years ago, Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer program—an algorithm to calculate Bernoulli sequences.External link:open_in_new Since then, women have continued to be at the forefront of some major industry-changing advancements in computer science. 

Women’s contributions to computing are varied and important — but not always credited or celebrated.

But as the industry became more desirable for men, women became a shrinking minority. 

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https://ischoolonline.berkeley.edu/blog/women-computing-computer-science

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