Reigniting The Flame of Women in Tech

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Did you know the first computer programmer ever was a woman? Yet in recent decades, things have changed—today, men far outnumber women in computer science majors. Nowadays, only about 10 percent of computer science majors are women but that wasn’t always the case. New Tech City host Manoush Zomorodi spoke to professors and students about why more women don’t pursue computer science majors and how we can change that.

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

This is an interesting phenomenon…oddly enough, when I was in college, most of the computer science majors I knew were women who were deep into math. I wasn’t, but in retrospect, I probably could’ve learned programming just fine. Times have changed in 30 +/- years. Perhaps many who would’ve been programmers are technical communicators instead? Who knows…but there are plenty of us techie gals out there. We just have to encourage more techie gals to not be shy, let nothing hold them back, and pursue STEM careers like computer science.

–techcommgeekmom

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Author: TechCommGeekMom

Danielle M. Villegas is a technical communicator who currently employed at Cox Automotive, Inc., and freelances as her own technical communications consultancy, Dair Communications. She has worked at the International Refugee Committee, MetLife, Novo Nordisk, BASF North America, Merck, and Deloitte, with a background in content strategy, web content management, social media, project management, e-learning, and client services. Danielle is best known in the technical communications world for her blog, TechCommGeekMom.com, which has continued to flourish since it was launched during her graduate studies at NJIT in 2012. She has presented webinars and seminars for Adobe, the Society for Technical Communication (STC), the IEEE ProComm, TCUK (ISTC) and at Drexel University’s eLearning Conference. She has written articles for the STC Intercom, STC Notebook, the Content Rules blog, and The Content Wrangler as well. She was very active in the STC, as a former chapter president for the STC-Philadelphia Metro Chapter, serving and chairing on several STC Board committees, and most recently was the STC Board Vice-President before the organization closed.. You can learn more about Danielle on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/daniellemvillegas, on Twitter @techcommgeekmom, or through her blog. All content is the owner's opinions, and does not reflect those of her employers past or present. View All Posts