What's in a name? For tech entrepreneur Dame Stephanie Shirley, bidding contracts under the name "Steve" enabled her to launch and grow a freelance software company with a virtually all-female staff.

When I first started out as a technology journalist back in 2000, with IT skills as one of my beats, the proportion of women working in tech compared to men was around 20%. Today, that number still ...

Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley founded one of the U.K.'s first software startups, run almost entirely by women. The industry still has gender... Amid the calls to "lean in" and endless head-scratching ...

Entrepreneur and philanthropist Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley is an icon in the technology industry, and part of the sector for more than 50 years. Starting her women-led company in 1962, Shirley not ...

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