Go after it! Don't be afraid to major in something in college that will lead you to this. - Elsie Shutt

I think if there have been fewer women than men in computing, it's because they've been discouraged back at the education level from majoring in math, or engineering, or computer science.

It really amazed me that these men were programmers because I thought it was women’s work!

And they asked if I would be willing to work on that, but it was much too big a job for me to do by myself. And the other women I had worked with had young children, including Elaine, Barbara Wade, Anne Kirby (ph). I mean, there were a number of them and I said we can work on this