Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/357629765/357998990" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Modern computer science is dominated by men. But it hasn't always been this way. A lot of computing pioneers — the people who programmed the first digital computers — were women. And for decades, the number of women studying computer s
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