Attention fanboys, lady nerds are here in force. When more than 130,000 fans, geeks, comic book aficionados and superhero savants begin their stampede this week at San Diego’s Comic-Con, the ...

The computer science departments at Carnegie Mellon and Harvey Mudd raised the ratio of female majors from about 10 to 40 percent in five years by tackling stereotypes head on.

Ursula Martin, a professor of computer science at Oxford University, has criticised 'staggering sexism'. She said there was presentation about an 'enhanced human' which was entirely male.

A very vocal and large segment of that fanbase is female. Many of the Voltron cosplay meetups are dominated by women dressed up as various characters, from the Paladins to minor characters, and ...

Margaret Atwood is one of more than 40 female contributors lending their talents and personal stories to The Secret Loves of Geek Girls, a nonfiction anthology tackling love, sex and dating.

Computer programmers are expected to be male and antisocial - an self-fulfilling prophecy that forgets the women that the entire field was built upon ...

While some still consider technology, sports, comics and superheroes the domain of boys and men, there's no denying that female "geeks" are on the rise - and eager to be recognized.

The low numbers of female computer science majors may have roots in the mid-1980s and the rise of personal computers ...

Photo editing app company BeFunky set out to grow its team and ended up hiring a predominately female team. Derric Hoffman, product manager at BeFunky, spoke to Computer Weekly about how the ...