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The Women in Technology International (WITI) is a global organization dedicated to the advancement of women in business and technology. [231] The Arab Women in Computing has many chapters across the world and focuses on encouraging women to work with technology and provides networking opportunities between industry experts and academicians and ...
LinuxChix, an international organization for women who use Linux and women and men who want to support women in computing, was founded by Deb Richardson. [118] Marissa Mayer, was the first female engineer hired at Google, and was later named vice president of Search Product and User Experience. She was formerly the CEO of Yahoo!. [citation needed]
Lucy Sanders (born 1954), CEO and co-founder of National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT); Executive-in-Residence for ATLAS Institute at University of Colorado at Boulder [78] [79] Padmasree Warrior, chief technology and strategy officer of Cisco Systems; former CTO of Motorola, Inc. [80] [81] [82] [83]
Women inventors have been historically rare in some geographic regions. For example, in the UK, only 33 of 4090 patents (less than 1%) issued between 1617 and 1816 named a female inventor. [1] In the US, in 1954, only 1.5% of patents named a woman, compared with 10.9% in 2002. [1]
1991: National Medal of Technology. [70] 1991: Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [71] 1992: The Society of Women Engineers established three annual, renewable, "Admiral Grace Murray Hopper Scholarships" [72] 1994: Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. [73] 1996: USS Hopper (DDG-70) was launched. [60]
Black women were also among the ENIAC programmers, [3] who programmed the first digital computer for the US Army. Their stories have not been documented. Given the dearth of information regarding the contributions of women in early computer science, it is likely that other Black women have made significant contributions to computer science and ...
Women's history is much more than chronicling a string of "firsts." Female pioneers have long fought for equal rights and demanded to be treated equally as they chartered new territory in fields ...
The following is a list of notable African-American women who have made contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.. An excerpt from a 1998 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education by Juliane Malveaux reads: "There are other reasons to be concerned about the paucity of African American women in science, especially as scientific occupations are among the ...