Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing / Marie Hicks.
Series: History of computingPublisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2017Description: x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780262035545 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780262535182 (paperback)
- 331.40941/09045 23
- HD6135 .H53 2017
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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.