“Prevalent stereotypes describe software engineers as socially inept introverts that are single-mindedly focused on computers,” writes psychologist Timo Gnambs in the Journal of Research and ...

Quick, picture a computer programmer. Did some combination of social awkwardness, extreme smarts, and possibly an unhealthy obsession with video games come to mind? True or not (and many advocates for ...

“I thought in order to be a programmer you had to have years of experience and you had to fit the typical programmer stereotype, and that was something that I didn’t fit,” she says. Dhumne did not ...