Today, women make up nearly half of America’s workforce, and counting. But even as women achieve new levels of success at work, some fields remain heavily male-dominated. Many of these occupations are seen as stereotypically “masculine” work, yet some of the gentleman’s club-type jobs we see today had early female influence. These five occupations actually have long, often-forgotten histories of women helping to pioneer their early days: The first computer programmer ever was a woman. Today’s tech world is notoriously male-dominated, with women holding less than 25 percent of science, technology, engineering and math jobs nationally. And yet, the gentlemen of Silicon Valley owe a lot to the 19th-century founder of scientific computing: Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace, or “Ada Lovelace.”

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