Jeanne Sampson, code breaker, dies age 100

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Funny thing, there was an article recently that explained why women in coding simply stopped being a thing in the eighties. The author blamed the computer marketing people who targeted young males for computer sales, and totally ignored girls. Prior to that most coders were in fact women. And a lot of them were black. I remember the photo that appeared on farcebook with the slim fine built black woman standing alongside a stack of A4 pages taller than she was, that was all her own work - pages of calculations that underpinned the space race...

And now we are campaigning to bring young women back into STEM areas...

Life is weird at times.