Upcoming DEI seminar on April 8: Coding, a job for women? The history of female programmers

The DEI community is pleased to invite you to the upcoming DEI seminar, which will take place on April 8 from 11am to 12 noon in the Jules Bordet room and via Teams, on the topic: "Coding, a job for women? The history of female programmers."

The guest speaker at this event is Isabelle Collet, leader of the Gender and Intersectional Relations research group in education (G-RIRE).

Computer science is playing a growing role in the development of society, but women have been largely under-represented in these professions for several decades. If we take a closer look, however, the lack of women in computer science seems to be a recent, local problem, which emerged in the 1980s in Western countries. If we go back to the early days of computer programming, there were female mathematician-programmers, but they were generally little known, underpaid and forgotten, apart from the very first, Ada Lovelace.

What was so "feminine" about this work?

Practical information:

Teams linkLanguage: French