AFP through Getty ImageVisionary Tech Pioneer and Philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley died at the age of 91.
Border-border entrepreneurs arrived in London a few weeks before the outbreak of World War II, and became a computer industry and women’s rights pioneers in the 1950s and 1960s.
He founded the software company Freelance Programmer in 1962, shaking the technical industry by almost particularly hiring women, and later donated about £ 70 meters to help those with autism and IT projects in life.
She was very smart and really malicious, even Adopting the name “Steve” To help him in the world of a male-oriented technology.
He died on 9 August, his family said in an Instagram post on Monday.
For many women in Tech, themselves were included, Dame Stephanie was inspiring.
Especially women coders and data inputors were leading their leading and controversial decisions to work from home, from their time and many lives changed.
He had a difficult life, and it made him difficult.
She was very rare about sorrow and showed – publicly – extraordinary strength in front of many painful experiences.
She was from a generation whose childhood was shaped by the atrocities of World War 2.
Born in the German city of Dortmund in 1933, Vera Buchhathal, a Jewish father of Dame Stephanie, was a judge.
He hoped that his family would be protected from being in power, but as the Nazi government increased the oppression of the German Jews, they fled to the Austrian capital Vienna.
She was one of the thousands of Jewish children who ran away from Nazis and came to Britain as part of Kindartanceport – a British rescue effort in the months before World War 2 brought 10,000 children to Britain – where she was brought to love foster parents.
Dame Stephanie ShirleyDetermined not to be defined from her painful childhood, Dame Stephanie established a company designed to provide jobs for women with children.
After starting as a scientific civil servant, he founded the software company Freelance Programmer in 1962 – later known as the Fi Group, later still Zansa – something that was almost unheard of a woman in the 1960s.
The company changed the landscape for women working in technology by offering flexible working practices.
Out of the first 300 employees, 297 were women.
The company’s success left Dame Stephanie with a fate of about 150 meters, most of which He donated for good reasons,
Her late son Gils was autistic and she was an early member of the National Autistic Society, with her charity Shirley Foundation, especially several projects related to autism.
He established autism in Kingwood, a service that now supports autistic adults in Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
He also helped in the establishment of the court of the prior – Thacham, a school for autistic youth in Berkshire.
Dame Stephanie ShirleyThe last time I saw her, I introduced her to a program on stage. She was weak, but always extremely glamorous and completely captivating.
She said that she knew that she was coming to the end of her life and she clearly reflects her what she felt she had learned.
He had a strong moral compass and believed in using his money for good. And he never stood for sexism.
He refused to conform to many gender stereotypes and clichs of the society’s entire life.
Dame Stephanie has passed a lot of time to sign the letters as Steve so that he can draw the attention of male business contacts.
But Tech remains a male dominated industry and women still have to shout loudly.
Steve was one of the first, and he shouted the most loud.
Additional Reporting by Charlotte Edwards
