I am sure I will get downvoted to all hell, but I understand the politics of your comment. I am sure it will get de-railed, but it would be awesome if someone can post interviews with well-known female programmers in response here. I would love to read them.

I know one of the authors of Learn Haskell authors, superginbaby, is a mother by reading her about page after her very cool "Teach Haskell to a 10 Year Old" post.

https://superginbaby.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/teaching-haske...

She seems awesome. I would love to read about contemporary programmers, specifically in the open source world (I know, ironic given this in response to Fog Creek).

Maybe something more contemporary than the CMU Ada project, which I just found.

https://www.women.cs.cmu.edu/ada/Resources/Women/

As a beginner, I want to read about anyone who can do this better than me. I would read from anything, but if I could read machine code better I would be busier with that instead of procrastinating on HN.