Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing / Marie Hicks.
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TextSeries: Publisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: x, 342 pagesContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780262035545
- Storbritannien
- Electronic data processing
- Women -- Employment
- Women in technology
- Sex discrimination in employment
- Great Britain -- History
- Women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Sex discrimination in employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic data processing -- Great Britain -- History
- Technocracy
- Kvinnor på arbetsmarknaden
- Könsdiskriminering på arbetsmarknaden
- Kvinnor och teknik
- Elektronisk databehandling
- 1900-talet
- Computers
- 331.4094109045 23/swe
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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.