Hate to say it, but that is most likely because of bias and sexism. There are some very amazing women in tech out there that go unnoticed.
I don't think so. I couldn't tell you the inventor of the transistor or the operating system but I'm familiar with Grace Hopper and Eda Lovelace. The important people in a field's history are more or less remembered for reasons that may be arbitrary like a catchy name or funny story.
Ada, you mean?
Yeah, might have had Owl House on my mind
Heard of Hal Laning, creator of the first compiler; and of the real-time load-shedding OS that landed Apollo on the moon?