Hicks, Marie,
Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing / Marie Hicks. - 1 PDF (x, 342 pages) : illustrations. - History of computing . - 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 -- Data processing in peacetime: institutionalizing a feminized machine underclass, 1946-1955 -- Luck and labor shortage: gender flux, professionalization, and growing opportunities for computer workers, 1955-1967 -- The rise of the technocrat: how state attempts to centralize power through computing went astray, 1965-1969 -- The end of white heat and the failure of British technocracy, 1969- 1979 -- Conclusion: reassembling the history of computing around gender's formative influence -- Bibliography.
Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
Mode of access: World Wide Web
9780262342933
1900-1999
Women--Employment--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Sex discrimination in employment--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Electronic data processing--History.--Great Britain
Technocracy.
Electronic data processing.
Sex discrimination in employment.
Technocracy.
Women--Employment.
Computers.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
HD6135 / .H53 2017eb
331.40941/09045
Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing / Marie Hicks. - 1 PDF (x, 342 pages) : illustrations. - History of computing . - 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 -- Data processing in peacetime: institutionalizing a feminized machine underclass, 1946-1955 -- Luck and labor shortage: gender flux, professionalization, and growing opportunities for computer workers, 1955-1967 -- The rise of the technocrat: how state attempts to centralize power through computing went astray, 1965-1969 -- The end of white heat and the failure of British technocracy, 1969- 1979 -- Conclusion: reassembling the history of computing around gender's formative influence -- Bibliography.
Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
Mode of access: World Wide Web
9780262342933
1900-1999
Women--Employment--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Sex discrimination in employment--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Electronic data processing--History.--Great Britain
Technocracy.
Electronic data processing.
Sex discrimination in employment.
Technocracy.
Women--Employment.
Computers.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
HD6135 / .H53 2017eb
331.40941/09045