From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early 1900s, computing joined teaching and nursing as one of the few careers open to ...

To her children, Charlene Roberts-Hayden was like a character out of the book and movie “Hidden Figures” — just born a generation later, and working as a pioneering Black woman in computer programming ...

Phanuelle Manuel said having a fellow Black woman as a mentor helped her visualize a future in computer science. Manuel, and hundreds of other high school students, received training, mentorship and ...