The first 'computers' were humans, not machines. Many of them were women. Frances Snyder Holberton, Jean Jennings Bartik, Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum, and Frances Bilas Spence were the original programmers of the ENIAC,the first electronic computer built in America. They were asked to program it in 1945 without ever having seen the machine.
Women have kick-started countless initiatives and organizations across the world that nurture female coders, like Girls Who Code, Black Girls Code and Indian Girls Code.
The 2015 world record for a women's hackathon saw 7,314 female participants across 34 countries, with an 80% participation from India.
Padmasree Warrior, an Indian woman, was the CEO of a company pioneering work in self-driving cars.
Vandana ‘Vandi' Verma was 11 years old when she got behind the wheel of her grandfather's tractor. She never imagined that someday she would navigate a rover on Mars.
Today, sitting at her desk at NASA, Verma drives, programs and navigates the Curiosity rover on Mars. Using Artificial Intelligence, the rover takes images, analyses soil and rocks, and helps NASA understand the planet's past. Though Verma helps it do its job, the rover makes its own decisions.

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