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Why is that? The first woman doesn’t show up until #30. Read the article.
1. Tim Berners-Lee
2. Sergey Brin
3. Larry Page
4. Guglielmo Marconi
5. Jack Kilby
6. Gordon Moore
7. Alan Turing
8. Robert Noyce
9. William Shockley
10. Don Estridge
11. Doug Engelbert
12. Robert Metcalfe
13. Vint Cerf
14. Steve Jobs
15. Andrew Grove
16. Seymour Cray
17. Pierre Omidyar
18. Shawn Fanning
19. Dennis Ritchie
20. Ted Hoff
21. Linus Torvalds
22. Shuji Nakamura
23. Dave Packard
24. Jean Hoerni
25. William Hewlett
26. John Logie Baird
27. George Boole
28. Martin Cooper
29. John Pinkerton
30. Grace Hopper
31. Bill Gates
32. Herman Hollerith
33. Thomas Watson
34. Jeff Bezos
35. Meg Whitman
36. Ada Lovelace
37. Nolan Bushnell
38. Claude Shannon
39. Charles Babbage
40. John Chambers
41. Philo Farnsworth
42. Steve Wozniak
43. Larry Ellison
44. Michael Dell
45. Maurice Wilkes
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:21 pm February 8th, 2008 in Tech, Women
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Well, Bill Gates came in 31 so I guess there is some justice.. a bit anyway!
Shabbat shalom Jill,
I knew it would be Grace.
What 42 (or 20 if you want to make it roughly 50/50) women would you add to the list?
And why in the world did they stop at 45?
That is such an odd number.
B’shalom,
Jeff
Shabbat Shalom Jill,
For instance, I’d wonder why Rosalind Franklin isn’t on the list.
B’shalom,
Jeff
Hi Carole – Good point.
But still – I love to analyze these things and say, we need a better pipeline, but also, which years did they focus on – was the competition so overloaded with men in the first place that three women is good over 150 years? See – I think that is so sad.
Morning Jeff. Yeah – I don’t know why they stopped at 45 – I’m having deja vu – did I do a post about a list like this last year!?
Anyway – I recognize about 11-14 names, but some I don’t know why I know them. And Meg Whitman – is she really considered a techie?
I’m not a techie – I’m not really sure what names should go on there – but there must be some academics, maybe?
Here’s a list of women-related websites that focus on science and tech. And there’s a neighbor of mine who run a girls in tech program out of Laurel. I am sure the resources are out there to find more women who have contributed.
I need to go back and figure out who nominated the names to the list of 45…