These women have changed the world with science...Too bad a man was given all the credit...

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30. The women of ENIAC were also pushed into the shadows while...

....the men took all the credit for the machines those women mathematicians programmed. Without the programming, the hardware was useless. It wasn't until the women were in their 80s that they were given any credit at all...now I think most or all of them are dead.


http://eniacprogrammers.org/

http://www.army.mil/article/98817/

The ENIAC, the world's first computer, was invented to calculate ballistics trajectories during World War II - a task that until then had been done by hand by a group of 80 female mathematicians. The six women who were chosen to make the ENIAC work toiled six-day weeks during the war, inventing the field of programming as they worked. But although they were skilled mathematicians and logicians, the women were classified as "sub-professionals" presumably due to their gender and as a cost-saving device, and never got the credit due to them for their groundbreaking work.

"Somebody else stood up and took credit at the time, and no one looked back," explains Anna van Raaphorst-Johnson, a director of WITI. "It's a typical problem in a male-dominated industry. And there's still a lot of frustration with men taking credit for women's ideas - it doesn't seem to have changed much over the last 50 years."

But although the women had been categorized as "clerks," they were rediscovered by a Harvard student named Kathryn Kleiman in 1986, during her research for a paper on women in computing. When the 50th anniversary of the ENIAC computer rolled around last year, Kleiman - now an Internet lawyer at Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth - decided that it was time to get the women the recognition they deserved.
"I called and asked what they were doing to honor the ENIAC programmers, and they said, 'Who?'" says Kleiman.

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1997/05/3711