# Meet the forgotten female pioneers of the tech world

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/meet-the-forgotten-female-pioneers-of-the-tech-world/
- Published: 2026-11-07T19:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-07T19:21:59+00:00
- Original publisher: New York Post (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://nypost.com/2026/11/07/tech/meet-the-forgotten-female-pioneers-of-the-tech-world/
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Eileen Buckholtz’s book highlights overlooked women in computing.
- Their classified work included code-breaking and early computer programming.
- About 10,000 women did wartime cryptanalysis for the US government.

## Summary

Eileen Buckholtz is documenting women whose early work helped shape computing and cybersecurity, but whose contributions went largely unrecognised because much of it was classified. Her forthcoming book, *Queens of Code*, grew out of her dismay at seeing women scarcely represented at the Computer History Museum.

The book draws on seven years of research, declassified records and accounts from retired NSA employees. It describes women who deciphered enemy signals, programmed early computers and helped develop microelectronic chips and cybersecurity networks. Around 10,000 women undertook cryptanalysis for the US government during the Second World War, and many later joined the newly formed NSA.

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