![In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Department of Energy is honoring some of the nation's best and brightest women in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) community. In this 1949 photo, U.S. Geological Survey mineralogist Elaine Zworykin is shown with an electron microscope, a piece of technology developed by her father, Vladimir Zworykin. Elaine had been assigned to RCA laboratories to teach researchers how to use the microscope. | Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s. By ENERGY.GOV [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](http://karenwickert.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Photo_of_the_Week-_Women_in_STEM_-_Elaine_Zworykin_87240644081.jpg)
In this 1949 photo, U.S. Geological Survey mineralogist Elaine Zworykin is shown with an electron microscope, a piece of technology developed by her father, Vladimir Zworykin. Elaine had been assigned to RCA laboratories to teach researchers how to use the microscope. | Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 90-105 – Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/women-in-stem
A sampling of my favorites:
As part of a secret World War Two project, six young women programmed the first all-electronic programmable computer. When the project was eventually introduced to the public in 1946, the women were never introduced or credited for their hard work — both because computer science was not well understood as an emerging field, and because the public’s focus was on the machine itself.
— Regarding the ENIAC Programmers
… [Ada Lovelace’s] previously little-known work and “poetical” approach to science has broken through to inspire present-day young women interested in computer programming.