I agree to a point, but there really aren’t many female inventors or scientist.
It’s nice for technical women to have positive role models.
As a female software engineer, I like Ada Lovelace!
I can understand you enthusiasm somewhat as I think that Stroustrup is a hero for C++ but I don’t celebrate him because he is a male. I celebrate the ingenuity of his mind and the result that became the standard language of today.
Yes, I understand your role model example but really would not girls be just as enthralled if she were exclaimed as the inventor of a programming language? Did they really have to point out her gender to make it more palatable? That is my point and my complaint. Too much PC in all things...