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020			_a9780262035545 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020			_a9780262535182 (paperback)
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050	0	0	_aHD6135 _b.H53 2017
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100	1		_aHicks, Marie,
245	1	0	_aProgrammed inequality : _bhow Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing / _cMarie Hicks.
264		1	_aCambridge, MA : _bMIT Press, _c2017.
300			_ax, 342 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aHistory of computing
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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.
650		0	_aWomen _xEmployment _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aSex discrimination in employment _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aElectronic data processing _zGreat Britain _xHistory.
650		0	_aTechnocracy.
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