Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing /
Hicks, Marie,
Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing / Marie Hicks. - x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - History of computing .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780262035545 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780262535182 (paperback)
2016021258
Women--Employment--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Sex discrimination in employment--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Electronic data processing--History.--Great Britain
Technocracy.
HD6135 / .H53 2017
331.40941/09045
Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing / Marie Hicks. - x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - History of computing .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780262035545 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780262535182 (paperback)
2016021258
Women--Employment--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Sex discrimination in employment--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Electronic data processing--History.--Great Britain
Technocracy.
HD6135 / .H53 2017
331.40941/09045