When computer programming was ‘women’s work’Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include links to sources, research and statistics that were omitted from the original publication.

'Girls Who Code' Class Teaches Girls Computer Programming, Self-Confidence <p>A group of Tulsa middle school girls are learning to code thanks to a nation movement aiming to get more women into ...

Code One Programming’s founders are still students at Leland High School in Almaden Valley but the newly formed nonprofit has made teaching computer programming to the next generation its ...

At the second annual Go CODE Girl workshop, 60 girls from grades 7 to 11 learned the basics of computer programming from female post-secondary and post-graduate students.

The Innovators, Walter Isaacson's new book, tells the stories of the people who created modern computers. Women, who are now a minority in computer science, played an outsize role in that history.

A study by the University of Sussex found that girls wrote more complex computer game programs, but that film portrayals of nerdy computer geeks may be putting them off.

Imagine a computer programmer. What does this person look like? What is this person doing? Is the person with anyone? What kinds of hobbies might he or she have? Chances are that you imagined ...

In this excerpt from "The Computer Boys Take Over," historian Nathan Ensmenger explains that the first computer programmers were women because managers expected programming to be low-skill clerical ...

Avye Couloute, 15, has won the National Lottery Young Hero Award for encouraging girls to get involved in the world of tech ...

Computer programmers are expected to be male and antisocial - an self-fulfilling prophecy that forgets the women that the entire field was built upon ...