Without them the tech industry would not be the same
Here’s the list of 10 women in tech that you should know.
Although gender diversity in the technology sector has received much attention over the recent years, current stats reveal vast disparities in employment levels and salaries earned by women in tech.
According to PWC, only 5% of leadership positions in the technology sector are held by women today. The enormous disproportion along with a lack of female role models and adequate support discourage many women from considering a career in tech.
Based on a recent survey conducted on 2,000 high school and university students, only 22% of students can name a famous woman working in technology, while 60% can name a famous man working in the tech field.
To help reduce this gap, we have created a list of 10 women in tech you should know:
1 Donna Dubinsky
Donna Dubinsky is a business leader who brought the PDAs (hand-held personal digital assistants) to the market.
2 Annie Easley
Annie Easley was a computer scientist and mathematician. She was one of the first African-American computer scientists to work at NASA. Her work laid out the foundations for space shuttle launches. Easley also actively encouraged women and people of color to enter STEM fields.
3 Adele Goldberg
Adele Goldberg is a computer scientist. She was the only woman among the group of men who built the Smalltalk-80 programming language used to create the first graphical user interface. Her work inspired the very first Apple computer.
4 Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper is called the “Mother of Computing.” She invented the first compiler and helped develop COBOL — one of the first high-level programming languages.
5 Karen Sparck Jones
Karen Sparck Jones was a computer scientist who revolutionized the system of searching for content on the computer. Her research work established the basis of search engines we use today.
6 Susan Kare
Susan is an artist and graphic designer who created many interface elements for the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s. She was also a design consultant for numerous industry-leading companies, such as IBM, Microsoft, and Facebook. She is believed to be the first person who made a GUI system more intuitive to users.
7 Hedy Lamarr
Lamarr was an actress, film producer, and inventor. She co-invented the early version of the frequency hopping system that later inspired the emergence of Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth.
8 Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer. She wrote an algorithm in the 1800s for an early computing machine that existed only on paper.
9 Radia Perlman
Perlman is a computer programmer and network engineer. She contributed to the development of the internet’s infrastructure that we recognize today.
10 Mary Allen Wilkes
Wilkes is a former computer programmer and logic designer. She helped develop the first personal computer EVER.
There are even more women who have changed the tech world forever, and this list is just the beginning. It is important to be vocal about their achievements to encourage young girls and women to enter the field, if that is their dream.
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