Abby Gualda, a senior at Boston University in the College of Arts and Sciences, said she’s used to walking into a room that’s “full of men.” “If a woman’s going to walk into a room full of men and ...

Hoboken, N.J., June 17, 2025 – At the dawn of computing, women were the early adopters of computational technology, working with punch cards in what was then considered secretarial work. As computer ...

You don't need to visit too many high-tech cube farms and computer programming confabs before you notice that women in computer science are few and far between. In a new book entitled "Unlocking the ...

Computer science is a male dominated field. And it seems to be getting worse. In 1984, women represented 37 percent of computer science graduates. Two decades later the tech sector is booming but ...

But a lot of computing pioneers, the ones who programmed the first digital computers, were women. And for decades, the number of women in computer science was growing. But in 1984, something changed.

In this Podcast Extra, two computer scientists, Shobhana Narasimhan and Sana Odeh, join Nature's Anne Pichon to discuss the barriers that women and gender-diverse people still face when working in ...

Alexandra Holloway (Ph.D. computer science, 2015) works at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (Photo by Krys Blackwood) Darrell Long (center) shared a laugh with students and visitors at the Baskin ...

Phanuelle Manuel said having a fellow Black woman as a mentor helped her visualize a future in computer science. Manuel, and hundreds of other high school students, received training, mentorship and ...

Worldwide, women account for 28 percent of engineering and 40 percent of computer science graduates, according to the World Bank. We need more girls and women in science. What are three ways in which ...

There has been an 8% year-on-year increase in the number of women studying for computer science degrees in the UK, according to research by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. Looking at data from ...