Continuing on the topic of women and technology, I found this blog on the New York Times website: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/15/a-day-to-remember-the-first-computer-programmer-was-a-woman/?_r=0
I found this article very relevant since I am hoping to major in computer science myself, and also since Silicon Valley is such a big part of the bay area. The statistics referenced in the article further support Janice’s and Isabella’s points about women being underrepresented in scientific fields.
On a side note, I think it’s very interesting that the very first computer programmer was a woman (Ada Lovelace), and also that she was featured in one of the poems of Periodicity!
I found this article very relevant since I am hoping to major in computer science myself, and also since Silicon Valley is such a big part of the bay area. The statistics referenced in the article further support Janice’s and Isabella’s points about women being underrepresented in scientific fields.
On a side note, I think it’s very interesting that the very first computer programmer was a woman (Ada Lovelace), and also that she was featured in one of the poems of Periodicity!
- Mark Craig
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