Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing /
Hicks, Marie,author.
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 -- Peacetime data processing in peacetime : institutionalizing a feminized machine underclass, 1946-1955 -- Luck and labor shortage : gender flux, professionalization, and growing opportunities for computer workers, 1958-1967 -- 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.
Women computer industry employees
Women in computer science
Women
Sex discrimination in employment
Computer industry
Technocracy.