The Secret History of Women in Coding

After reading the article "The Secret History of Women in Coding",  I found many interesting things that I would like to discuss through this blog entry. It is well known that most of the times engineerings are dominated by men and many people have the wrong idea that men are the only one who is good at engineerings, especially in computer engineerings. Of course, this idea is totally wrong, many of the technologies innovations were created by women. 

In this article, the story of Mary Allen Wilkes is explained, in the beginning, she had no idea that she wanted to be a programmer, she went to MIT where she was hired in a programmer job. Even though she was not an expert in the area, she checked her code lines whenever there was a mistake to deduce it, checking every line in her head analyzing how the machine will execute it. Not many persons have the ability to check the code, analyze it and rewrite again completely, but she did. 

As I have said, women have been an important part of computer science, as a clear example, during World War II, women operated some of the first computational machines used for code breaking. 

There have been many cases of discrimination for women in this sector, many women that are part of very important teams inside big tech companies suffer from this, sometimes they are ignored or men repeat their ideas as if they were of them. I consider that it doesn't matter what gender you are, what sexual orientation you have, what race you are if you have disabilities or not, I consider that every person is good at something, maybe not everybody is good at programming but I do consider that we are all good at something and we are all valuable. I am really surprised that nowadays there are many women interested in computer engineerings, I am sure that they can change the world. 

- References: 

Thompson, C. (2019, February 13). The Secret History of Women in Coding. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/magazine/women-coding-computer-programming.html