Today (12 Oct) marks Ada Lovelace Day, celebrated across the world. It aims to shine a light on the accomplishments of women in science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM). The hope is to encourage more girls to take up STEM subjects and careers by making them aware of the women already in these fields. As Marian Wright Edelman, the civil rights activist noted, ``you can’t be what you can’t see.”
Ada Lovelace is the perfect woman to front this campaign. Despite being born in 1815, when women received little or no formal education and over a century before any women could vote, she is widely credited as being the first computer programmer. Though clearly a woman of great interest and intellect in her own right, Ada still often suffers from being spoken about in connection to men. Her father was the famous romantic poet Lord Byron and after an acrimonious split, her mother apparently steered her towards studying more scientific subjects to avoid her following a path like her father’s.
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Ada Lovelace is the perfect woman to front this campaign. Despite being born in 1815, when women received little or no formal education and over a century before any women could vote, she is widely credited as being the first computer programmer. Though clearly a woman of great interest and intellect in her own right, Ada still often suffers from being spoken about in connection to men. Her father was the famous romantic poet Lord Byron and after an acrimonious split, her mother apparently steered her towards studying more scientific subjects to avoid her following a path like her father’s.
Continue reading: https://www.fenews.co.uk/fevoices/77767-we-need-to-do-more-to-get-women-into-stem-on-ada-lovelace-day
