📌 2012: Virginia Rometty appointed as first woman CEO. 📌 1969: Gail Johnson built computer programs that processed data coming from the Apollo 11 spacecraft. Weather Underground provides local & long-range weather forecasts, weatherreports, maps & tropical weather conditions for the New York City area. Between 1940-1943, a third of IBM’s manufacturing hired are women. 📌 1943: First woman vice president, Ruth Leach. This was almost 30 years before the US passed the Equal Pay Act. 📌 1935: First written equal opportunity policy.

📌 1911: The newly formed IBM included female employees from its founding. Keep an eye out 👀 across our LinkedIn as well as our Life at IBM Instagram, Twitter and YouTube channels as we share snippets of the amazing stories behind these IBMers.īut for now, to kick off Women’s History Month, we want to take you back in time to some groundbreaking moments from women at IBM.

Each will share the positive contribution they make to both our business and their communities. Credit: Gregor Sailer /Cover Images Climate change causing the melting of Arctic Sea ice is opening a channel known as ‘The Polar Silk Road’ - a phenomenon documented in a new exhibition. This #WomensHistoryMonth, we are looking forward to introducing you to just some of the amazing women who work for IBM across the world. There's not enough space here to describe the impact made by women at IBM.

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