Articles:

This article from Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery is the basis for the video “Countering the Negative Image of Women in Computing.”
Research paper demonstrating that the presence of women on software teams decreases those teams’ incidence of community smells, a term for a type of behavior that may negatively impact the team’s ability to come together and work effectively as a unit.
- 2020 article that makes reference to this study
- 2021 article on an independently-conducted study suggesting that women’s higher “emotional intelligence” can counteract men’s “increased psychopathic tendencies”

Books:

Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, by Kurt Beyer, is a fascinating and humanizing biography of a nearly-mythologically-prominent figure in this story.
When Computers Were Human, by David Alan Grier, is a nice treatment of the era when a “computer” was a human being (usually a woman) doing computations.

Movies/Documentaries:

Coded Bias explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.
Pioneering Women of Computing goes beyond the legend of Grace Hopper to discuss other women whose contributions to early CS had profound effects on shaping the intellectual direction of the field.