How a woman named "Steve" became one of Britain’s most celebrated IT pioneers, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists
Dame Stephanie Shirley
In the realm of computing pioneers, Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley is one of the most celebrated, not only for building a $3 billion tech empire in 1960s England, but for doing it with an all-female, work-from-home staff of professionally qualified women who had left the work force after marrying and having children.
Having hit the glass ceiling herself many times, Shirley set out to establish her own software enterprise for women, built by women. She and her employees pio...
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