International Women's Day (Patreon)

A Day to Remember the First Computer Programmer Was a Woman

In 1842, Ada Lovelace, known as the "enchantress of numbers," wrote the first computer program. Fast-forward 171 years to today (which happens to be Ada Lovelace Day, for highlighting women in science, technology, engineering and math), and computer programming is dominated by men. Women software developers earn 80 percent of what men with the same jobs earn.