Programmed inequality
Subtitle: how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing
By: Marie Hicks
Series: History of computing
Publisher: MIT Press; The MIT Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780262035545
Subjects: Sex discrimination in employment; Technocracy; Electronic data processing; History; Employment; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-329) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Britain's computer "revolution"; title: War machines : women's computing work and the underpinnings of the data-driven state 1930-1946; title: Peacetime data processing : institutionalizing a feminized machine underclass 1946-1954; title: Luck and labor shortage : gender, professionalization, and opportunities for computer workers; title: 1958-1969; title: The rise of the technocrat : how state attempts to centralize power through computing went; title: Astray 1967-1971; title: The end of white heat and the failure of British technocracy, 1970-1979; title: Conclusion: re-assembling the history of computing to show gender's formative role; title: Bibliography.