Celebrate Women's Activism

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Collecting 10,000 stories of inspiring women.

Dr. Barbara H. Liskov

Pioneer in Object-Oriented Programing

Since 1975, every important programming language, including Java, has borrowed ideas from CLU. Dr. Liskov's other extraordinary contributions include the Venus operating system....

Gertrude Blanch

Gertrude Blanch (1897-1996) was a pioneer in numerical analysis and computation.

During World War II, Blanch and the Math Tables Project worked for the Applied Mathematics Panel of the Office for Scientific Research and Development. She oversaw calculations for the Army, Navy, Manhattan Project and dozens of defense industries....

Sophie Wilson

Director at the technology conglomerate Broadcom, Inc.

Sophie Wilson designed the first ARM processor at Acorn, a little chip that now runs almost all mobile phones and tablets and allowed a few of the first-ever computers to have a “brain!” ...

Pearl Young

Technical Writer

Pearl Young became the first female professional hired by The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). After she retired at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), she became the Chief Technical Editor at NACA's Langley Instrument Research Laboratory and an engineering professor. ...

Celebrate Women's Activism

Dr. Barbara H. Liskov

Pioneer in Object-Oriented Programing

Gertrude Blanch

Gertrude Blanch (1897-1996) was a pioneer in numerical analysis and computation.

Sophie Wilson

Director at the technology conglomerate Broadcom, Inc.

Pearl Young

Technical Writer

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Pearl Bowser

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Fannie Lou Hamer

Antonia Pantoja

Sylvia Mendez

Ingibjörg H. Bjarnason

Alexandra Gripenberg

Sophie Alberti

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