TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hicks,Marie
TI  - Programmed inequality: how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing 
T2  - History of computing
SN  - 9780262035545 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - HD6135 .H53 2017
U1  - 331.40941/09045 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Women
KW  - Employment
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Sex discrimination in employment
KW  - Electronic data processing
KW  - Technocracy
N1  - 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
ER  -