The roots of women's dominance in tech can be traced back to the 1940s and 1950s, with pioneers like Ada Lovelace, who is often credited with writing the first computer program in the mid-1800s, and the female codebreakers of Bletchley Park during World War II. However, it was during the development of the ENIAC, one of the first electronic general-purpose computers, that women programmers like Jean Jennings Bartik and Frances Elizabeth Holberton started to shape the future of programming. Unfortunately, their contributions were largely unrecognized for decades.
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