Ada Lovelace Day coverage from Computer Weekly

Got your copy of this week’s issue of Computer Weekly? Then you’ll already be aware that Ada Lovelace is our cover girl for today, Ada Lovelace Day, the initiative aiming to raise the profile of women working in technology through a global blogging pledge to post today about women’s achievements in the industry.

Inside today’s issue of Computer Weekly you’ll find:

• Front cover image of Ada
• Leader “Celebrating the first lady of IT” from editor, Brian McKenna (p. 3)
• “My Take” by Rachel Burnett, IT solicitor, who coments on our feature article, and recommends the BCS Women’s Group as a helpful support network (p. 16)
• Ada Lovelace Day feature on “Female role models in IT – Raising awareness of women’s achievements in IT” by our reporter Rebecca Thomson (pp. 24-25)

Online you’ll also find:

• Community editor Heidi Foster’s Ada Lovelace Day pledge-post, on young female programmer, Katharine Berry, on this very blog
• Photo story, “Ada Lovelace Day – Women in IT we admire”, celebrating a number of women who’ve achieved great things within the IT industry

And if that’s not enough for you, why not revisit some of the profile pieces and interviews with successful women in IT that we’ve run in the past, including:

• Tania Howarth, CIO of Coca-Cola Europe (March 2007)
• Jacqueline Guichelaar, chief technology officer of enterprise services, Deutsche Bank UK (July 2008)
• Kim Jones, managing director, Sun UK (February 2009)
• Claire Hamon, CIO of construction firm Rok Group (January 2008)
• Abby Ewen, IT director at law firm Simmons & Simmons (March 2008) 

Finally, I’m still hoping I’ll actually get my own pledge-post written here before the end of the day!

Update on 25/03/09: My pledge-post is done (over-long and confessional, admittedly – am out of practice at writing!) And I forgot to mention we also have a stats box on numbers of women and men working in IT in the UK in the issue, page 8, reproduced here for your convenience: