Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing / Marie Hicks.
By: Hicks, Marie [author.]
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Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
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BookSeries: History of computing: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2017]Description: 1 PDF (x, 342 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262342933.Subject(s): 1900-1999 | Women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Sex discrimination in employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Electronic data processing -- Great Britain -- History | Technocracy | Electronic data processing | Sex discrimination in employment | Technocracy | Women -- Employment | Computers | Great Britain | Australia | Automation | Bars | Bibliographies | Buildings | Business | Coal | Companies | Computer industry | Computers | Consumer electronics | Context | Corporate acquisitions | Data processing | Economics | Employment | Engineering profession | Ethics | Force | Government | Hardware | Heat treatment | Heating systems | History | Indexes | Industrial relations | Industries | Low earth orbit satellites | Presses | Resistance heating | Software | Standards | Training | WeaponsGenre/Form: History. | Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Programmed inequality.DDC classification: 331.40941/09045 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.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.
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