The Gender Gap in Computer ScienceAbstract: This article examines the gender gap in computer science. Computer science is a relatively new field, but still has few women involved. The numbers seemed to be going up for a while and then going down again. Stereotypes and media play a big role in discouraging women, but some universities are trying to change that by encouraging women. Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has seen significant increases in the number of women enrolled in computer science courses. A change of some kind is needed so we can create a more diverse group of programmers. This could be the key to the next big breakthrough in the industry.1. Brief history: the contribution of womenThis article analyzes the reasons for the gender gap in computer science. Although the number of women in computer science and related fields is low, women have made some important contributions. An early contribution came from Augusta Ada Byron in the first half of the 1800s. She is best known for her contributions to theoretical work. His work, along with others of the time, is believed to be the foundation of modern computers. He developed the idea of ​​loops and subroutines long before electronic computing existed. In her honor, the Department of Defense named the high-level programming language Ada after her [11]. Some other notable contributions in the past came in the 1940s, while most men were away during World War II and women were forced to fill many of the roles. jobs left behind. Grace Hopper made one of the greatest discoveries: inventing the first English-based programming language, which was later used to develop COBOL. Today, terms for which she was remembered are still used, such as bug and debug [2]. Men, however, returned from the war and resumed these positions, and the gender gap became more prevalent as time went on. It seems, however, that this should not have happened so easily as contributions such as Hopper's are the beginning of what became the backbone of digital computing as we know it today [6]. Hopper's contributions really marked the beginning of computer science as we know it, so in this sense computer science is a relatively new field. You might think that new technologies like computers would be easier to break into, since men didn't have as many years of a head start in computing as in many other fields; areas where the number of women is much more uniform[2].