Despite the contributions women have made to the information and technology field, they continue to be underrepresented. Ada Lovelace, for example, was the world’s first computer programmer. Grace Murray Hopper developed the first compiler. And Hedy Lamarr co-invented the modern spread-spectrum communication technology, which is found in Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS technology.

Today, the leading figures in the IT field are all men. Although 39 per cent of the board members of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies are women, all the chairpersons and CEOs are men: Arthur D. Levinson and Tim Cook for Apple, Satya Nadella for Microsoft, Jeff Bezos and Andrew Jassy for Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg for Meta, and John L. Hennessy and Sundar Pichai for Google.
A watercolour portrait of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, circa 1840. (Science Museum Group)
But progress is being made. A study from Osler, a business law firm, found that 23 per cent of S&P/TSX 60 company boards seats were held by women. This is an increase from data we — as accounting researchers — collected on Toronto Stock Exchange companies between 2014 and 2018 that found the following: 11.7 per cent of companies had one woman on the board of directors, 27.7 per cent had two women, and 56.3 per cent had at least three women.

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