As Victorian computing pioneer Ada Lovelace celebrates her 200th birthday,we ask why there are so few women working in tech todayFrom Ada Lovelace onwards, women’s contribution to the world of technology has been incalculable. Even as recently as 1984, or 37% of computer-science graduates in the US were female. Yet nowadays just 14% of the tech industry is made up of women. What went mistaken? In this week’s point to well be tipping our hat to the first lady of computing,and asking why, two centuries on, and there are so few women working in tech... and what can be done about it.
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Source: theguardian.com