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Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing / Marie Hicks.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: History of computingPublisher: Cambridge, MA ; London, UK : MIT Press, 2018Description: x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. ; pbkContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 0262535181
  • 9780262535182
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 331.4094109045 23
LOC classification:
  • .H53 2018
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-329) 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.

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