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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Hicks, Mar Programmed Inequality : How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing Cumberland : MIT Press,c2017 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mar Hicks |
ISBN: | 9780262342940 0262342944 |
OCLC Number: | 1164502643 |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Description: | 1 online resource (317 p.). |
Contents: | Introduction: Britain's computer "revolution" -- War machines : women's computing work and the underpinnings of the data-driven state 1930-1946 -- Peacetime data processing : institutionalizing a feminized machine underclass 1946-1954 -- Luck and labor shortage : gender, professionalization, and opportunities for computer workers -- 1958-1969 -- The rise of the technocrat : how state attempts to centralize power through computing went -- Astray 1967-1971 -- The end of white heat and the failure of British technocracy, 1970-1979 -- Conclusion: re-assembling the history of computing to show gender's formative role -- Bibliography. |
Series Title: | History of Computing Ser. |
Abstract:
How Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women.
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- Women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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- Electronic data processing -- Great Britain -- History.
- Technocracy.
- Computers
- Discrimination sexuelle dans l'emploi -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
- Technocratie.
- Ordinateurs.
- computers.
- Electronic data processing.
- Sex discrimination in employment.
- Women -- Employment.
- Great Britain.