We need to
be reminded from time to time that inventions are a group effort. By this I
mean there is no gender wall. Both male and female had a part in what we have
today.
It seems
when we as a group look at technology, which is the area covered in this book,
we put on blinders when it comes to those who had a part in creating things. In
this case, the computer.
Evans wants
us to remember females also played a part in what we have today. In fact, we
could look back to Byron, not him, his daughter, Ada Lovelace. She had a sharp
analytic mind. She was unfortunately living in a time where females were not
allowed a university education. So, she was home schooled. In the nineteenth
century she read and absorbed. She had something to do with the differential
engine of that day, a mathematical machine.
At the turn
of the twentieth century computers—this is what people who worked upon the
coding of the machines were called—were needed and females who were
mathematically inclined answered the need.
Just part of
the history involving females in the cyber history. It is almost as if they
have become ghosts. The evidence Evans presents in this book will help put the
women back in the spotlight where they belong along side the male partners. It
may have been the tendency of the male prejudice to see women as only secretaries
even those who were coding and maintaining the discipline.
Even our
internet as we know it today had females n the background. Their stories get
told here.
Women were
there at the very beginning of every important wave in technology. God did not
only give brains to men. Women also were blessed in that area.
It was a
woman named Grace Hooper who gave us a look at machine independent programing languages
after World War two, for one example.
Pioneers all.
It is time we acknowledge the women. Claire L. Evans does a good job.
I recommend this book. It is put out by
Portfolio/Penguin. It is copyrighted 2018 and costs retail $27.00.
