Women’s participation in academic computing has varied significantly; while women were once among the first academic computer scientists, today, women represent only 23% of all computing doctoral degree recipients, and Black, Latina, and Native women who are US residents represent only 3% of those earning PhDs in computing. Given the influential nature of the computing field and the current inequitable gender and racial/ethnic representation therein, we must do better to broaden pathways to careers in academic computing for women. Thus, the purpose of this chapter is twofold: (a) to trace the participation of women in academic computing from undergraduate and graduate education to the professoriate from the World War II era to today and (b) to provide contextual and historical information about the roles of some of the foundational organizations that have worked for women’s equity in computing, such as the National Center for Women and Information Technology, the Computing Research Association’s Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research, and AnitaB.org . These organizations have been and continue to be instrumental in working toward broadening the participation of all women in academic computing.