Women have been programming since before it was a thing. Take Ada Lovelace: Daughter of Lord Byron, she's often credited as the first computer programmer. Her work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine contains notes of the first machine-implemented algorithm.
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The ENIAC programmers included a number of women: Jean Bartik, Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum, Kay McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, Frances Spence, and Frances Elizabeth \"Betty\" Holberton. Despite their groundbreaking work, the Army never released the names of the women who worked on the ENIAC, and they were largely forgotten until Kathy Kleiman discovered their story in 1985.
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Hungarian-born R\u00f3zsa P\u00e9ter studied number theory and poetry before becoming interested in the idea that would become recursion theory. She published her paper \"Recursive Functions\" in 1951, but it wasn't until the mid-50's that she began to apply her work to the realm of computers.
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