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Augusta Ada Lovelace is known as the first computer programmer, and, since 2009, she has been recognized 11 on October 15th to highlight the often overlooked contributions of women to math and science. "I started to think that one of the biggest parts of the problem was that women in tech are often 12 ," Charman Anderson, the founder of Ada Lovelace Day, said. After reading a study in 2006 by the psychologist Penelope Lockwood, who 13 the scarcity of female role models in the sciences, Charman Anderson thought that a celebration for Lovelace could raise 14 of her successors. In 2014, dozens of celebrations will be thrown around the world.
Looming (隐现) in the background of these celebrations are findings, announced by the Census Bureau, that the 15 of women working in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) has decreased over the past couple of decades; this is due 16 to the fact that women account for a smaller proportion of those employed in computing. In 1990, women held thirty-four percent of STEM jobs; in 2011, it was twenty-seven percent. Valerie Aurora, the executive director of a nonprofit organization that arranges conferences and training programs to elevate (提升) women working in math and science, is 17 in the first ever Ada Lovelace conference later. "Lovelace is an 18 example of a woman for her time because she was not only allowed to learn mathematics but 19 to learn mathematics," Aurora said. "She shows what women can do when given an 20 ."
A. annually E. encouraged I. opportunity M. timely
B. attending F. invisible J. participating N. unusual
C. awareness G. largely K. researched O. visual
D. chance H. neglect L. share