Genderless programming

 This week we'll be discussing how important women has contributed in the software engineering industry since the very beginning. And how this role and their participation has changed and diminished throughout the years. The article The secret history of women in coding tells us more about these women and specially one of the pioneers of computer science, Mary Allen Wilkins.

After being rejected and disencouraged from pursuing a career in law, Mary remembered what a teacher once told her when in highschool. She should pursue a career in computer programming, at the time she didn't fully grasp what this meant exactly. Eventually she would go on and be a vital piece in the puzzle for what we now know as a computer. 

Mary is just an example of how women have impacted in our field of study, at the time, men weren't even that interested in this science and saw higher value in the hardware rather than the software. To be honest, once I read this article I was rather disappointed of how as time has passed, this role has decreased because of sexism, stereotypes and men distantiating them from the industry. In the end, we are all programmers and any new comer should be encouraged and supported if this is the career path they choose, instead we often see more advanced programmers mocking and underappreciating what this new minds could bring to the table. Let's start sending a message of positivity and inclusion, everyone can be a programmer, regardless of gender, sexual preference or religion. This is the way to go for us to continue evolving towards the development of technology for the benefit of humanity.