Programmed inequality how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing
Hicks, Marie
Programmed inequality how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing - Cambridge MIT Press 2017 - 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 -- 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.
9780262035545
2016021258
Women--Employment--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Sex discrimination in employment--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Electronic data processing--History.--Great Britain
Technocracy.
Computers.
HD6135 / .H53 2017
Programmed inequality how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing - Cambridge MIT Press 2017 - 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 -- 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.
9780262035545
2016021258
Women--Employment--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Sex discrimination in employment--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Electronic data processing--History.--Great Britain
Technocracy.
Computers.
HD6135 / .H53 2017