'The percentage of employed women across all job sectors in the U.S. has grown to 47% over the past decades, only 34.4% of positions in the five largest tech companies on the planet — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft — are occupied by women.'
National WebMistress Day, which is observed on August 26 every year, aims to recognize women in web development and celebrate their contributions to the field.
However, that doesn't take away the significance of WebMistress Day, since women remain highly underrepresented in many tech-related jobs like software engineering, where they comprise only 14% of the workforce, and computer science, of which only 25% are held by women. That said, we should encourage more women to take up roles not only in web development but in STEM in general. One way of doing it is by introducing them to the amazing women who made a huge impact on the tech world. Below are some of them.
2- Sister Mary Kenneth Keller- She is the first female to have earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Keller founded the computer language BASIC , which soon became a popular add-on when IBM launched the first computer for home use.
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