In the 1940s, the U.S. Army funded the development of the world’s first all-electronic general purpose computer known as the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, or simply ENIAC, which was ...

Despite the fact that a woman won high-tech's most prestigious award this year, the industry woefully lacks in training and recruiting women into engineering and programming, reports USAToday. IBM's ...

In the early 1960s, a British woman named Stephanie “Steve” Shirley founded a software startup called Freelance Programmers. Shirley’s company allowed its workers to program from home (as long as they ...

Women's Royal Naval Service members operate the Colossus Mark 2 machine, which went into operation just before D-Day and provided critical codebreaking for the invasion's success. Photo: National ...

This story is part of our series, The Changing Lives of Women. Sarah Allen has been the only woman on a team of computer programmers a few times in the more than two decades she has worked in the ...

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 ...

Why aren't there more female software developers in Silicon Valley? James Damore, the Google engineer fired for criticizing the company's diversity program, believes that it's all about "innate ...

“Without Stack Overflow, I’d be unemployed,” many programmers will tell you, referring to the online forum that helps solve coding problems. The site is built around questions and answers, and ...

The latest step in the ongoing conversation about the gender gap in tech came on Tuesday when Google announced that it had fired engineer James Damore for “perpetuating gender stereotypes” in an ...

A new study from Glassdoor, the online job information firm, shows that female programmers are making far less than their male counterparts, when compared to other fields with pay inequities. The ...