Mary Lee Berners-Lee

Biography

Mary Lee Berners-Lee was one of the first commercial computer programmers, working on the Ferranti Mark 1 — the world's first commercially available general-purpose electronic computer — in Manchester in the early 1950s. She successfully campaigned for equal pay for female programmers nearly two decades before the Equal Pay Act, and later became one of the world's first freelance software consultants. She was the mother of Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web.

玛丽·李·伯纳斯-李是最早的商用计算机程序员之一，1950年代初在曼彻斯特为费兰蒂Mark 1——世界上第一台商用通用电子计算机——编写程序。她在《同工同酬法》颁布近二十年前就成功争取了女性程序员的同工同酬，后来成为世界上最早的自由软件顾问之一。她是万维网发明者蒂姆·伯纳斯-李的母亲。

Key Achievements

• One of the first commercial computer programmers on Ferranti Mark 1

  费兰蒂Mark 1最早的商用计算机程序员之一

• Campaigned for equal pay for women programmers

  为女性程序员争取同工同酬

• Became one of the world's first freelance software consultants

  成为世界上最早的自由软件顾问之一

References & Citations

1. Wikipedia: Mary Lee Woods — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lee_Woods
2. The Guardian: Mary Lee Berners-Lee obituary — https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/23/mary-lee-berners-lee-obituary