Ada Lovelace and women in tech – Tech Weekly podcast
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As Victorian computing pioneer Ada Lovelace celebrates her 200th birthday, we ask why there are so few women working in tech today
From Ada Lovelace onwards, women's contribution to the world of technology has been incalculable. Even as recently as 1984, 37% of computer-science graduates in the US were female. Yet today just 14% of the tech industry is made up of women. What went wrong?
In this week's show we'll be tipping our hat to the first lady of computing, and asking why, two centuries on, there are so few women working in tech... and what can be done about it.
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