A detailed history of the important but under-recognized roles women have played in computer coding, from Ada Lovelace through to today (Clive Thompson/New York Times)

Clive Thompson / New York Times:
A detailed history of the important but under-recognized roles women have played in computer coding, from Ada Lovelace through to today  —  Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today.  What went wrong?  —  As a teenager in Maryland in the 1950s …