10 Aug Seven technologists who kicked off the computer revolution & happen to be female.

Too often women get written out of history. At SheSays Boulder we know how important it is to see something to be something. Sharing stories is powerful. It’s time we made sure that amazing women are seen & recognized for the work they’ve done, whether that’s launch industries in tech or leading agencies or creating opportunity and a roadmap for others to follow.

Here’s a great Backchannel article by Jessi Hempel
about 7 women you should know from Silicon Valley: 

On a recent Sunday morning, a friend texted me a photo from the checkout line of a Palo Alto Whole Foods. It was the cover of a Newsweek special issue entitled “Founding Fathers of Silicon Valley.” Seven faces graced the cover: Bill Gates. Mark Zuckerberg. David Packard. Bill Hewlett. Jeff Bezos. Elon Musk. Steve Jobs.

Three words for you, Newsweek: What the hell?

Ok, put aside the fact that three of those men don’t live in the Bay Area. At least one of them wasn’t born when the valley’s orchards were first being transformed into ground zero for the computer revolution. And any history that holds up seven white men as the founders of the computer revolution obscures the true collective nature of innovation.

Most important, it eliminates a valuable recruiting tool for getting women into tech, and for propelling them to more powerful positions: representation. As Marian Wright Edelman, Founder and President of the Children’s Defense Fund said in the 2011 documentary Miss Representations: “You can’t be what you can’t see.”

I posted the cover on Facebook, calling the publication out for its narrow approach. Kira Bindrim, who was then Newsweek’s managing editor (and has since left for Quartz), responded to the post, blaming an outside company for the faux pas and writing that whenever you have seven white guys on a cover, “someone somewhere should always go, ‘…now hold up.’”

So, hold up…

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THE 7 WOMEN TECHNOLOGISTS YOU SHOULD KNOW – HERE

Photo from Backchannel article. 7 women who you should know in tech from Silicon Valley