Equal Bytes for Women
date: label: date made
content: 1980
name: label: maker
content: Computerworld
notes: label: Description
content: This button is part of a set of materials (much of it advertising ephemera) relating to computing donated to the Smithsonian for possible use its Information Age exhibition. The red button reads: Equal Bytes For Women" and "Computerworld."
label: Description
content: In 1979, the trade publication <I>Computerworld</I> held its first annual button contest. According to its January 28 1980 issue, one of the six winning slogans was "Equal Bytes for Women," submitted by one C. Barnard of Medicus Systems in Chicago, Illinois. Hence the rough date assigned to the object.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Tom Hankel, "Button Contest Finds TV, Sex on DPers' Minds," <I>Computerworld</>, vol. 14 issue 4, January 28, 1980, p. 12.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Rights
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Advertising
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gerald Wright
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0407.04
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0407.04
label: accession number
content: 1990.0407
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button, advertising
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in x 1/4 in; 5.715 cm x 5.715 cm x .635 cm