5 female coders you have probably never heard of who changed the world

Jul 21, 2016

Recent research suggests that female coders are considered better – but only if they hide their gender. Image: REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski

Joe Myers

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The percentage of female coders in Silicon Valley tech jobs Image: Statista

Margaret Hamilton was one of the first female coders who contributed to Apollo 11 mission Image: MIT

Despite Ada Lovelace, a women, as the first computer programmer, the world knows of only a few female coders today Image: The Atlantic / Wikimedia Commons

There were only two female coders during World War 2 at Bletchley, of which Clarke was one. Image: REUTERS/Alessia Pierdomenico

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