Elsie Shutt

Elsie Shutt (born 1928) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur who founded Computations Incorporated (CompInc) in 1957 when she was not permitted to work part-time at home after she became pregnant. Shutt was notably one of the first women to start a software business not only in the United States but the entire world. Quotes 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 when woman stopped coding “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.” when asked why she thought few women are programmmers “Go after it! Don’t be afraid to major in something in college that will lead you to this.” when asked what advice she have for women contemplating computing career It really amazed me that these men were programmers because I thought it was women’s work! when she learn that computer science had become men's domain Quotes about person/work External links Category:1928 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century American businesswomen Category:Living people Category:Women born in the 1920s Category:Company founders