Cross Section: Dame Stephanie Shirley – Science Weekly podcast
by Presented by Hannah Devlin and produced by Max San from on (#2ZE3W)
Hannah Devlin speaks with the IT pioneer about her life as a woman in tech, having a son with autism, and how it all led to her later role as a philanthropist
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In 1962, Stephanie Shirley - now Dame Stephanie Shirley - set up the computing company Freelance Programmers with just 6. The company was one of the first to commercialise software which, until then, had often been given away for free with computers. And with a gender balance of roughly one man for every hundred women, the company was pioneering in other ways too.
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