Despite these contributions, women still make up only 25% of the tech workforce with lower representation at 11% in ...

some women forged ahead in the postwar period. Grace Hopper made the first compiler (and popularized the term 'debugging,' after fishing a moth from the innards of Harvard's Mark I computer).

Prof Black remembers the head of department, Gordon Love, telling her he wanted to make Durham computer science "the number one destination for women in tech". So what made the difference?

if it weren't for ground-breaking women. After joining the US Navy during the Second World War, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was assigned to work on a new computer, called the Mark 1. It wasn't long ...