Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing - Paperback
by Mar Hicks
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mar HicksSeries:History of ComputingAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2018-02-23Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262535182ISBN-10:262535181UPC:9780262535182Book Category:Computers, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:History, Gender Studies, Labor & Industrial RelationsSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC5FB454JP
Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
This "sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias" explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women (Harvard Magazine) In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds lessons for all...
Series: History of Computing
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262535182ISBN-10:262535181UPC:9780262535182Book Category:Computers, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:History, Gender Studies, Labor & Industrial RelationsSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC5FB454JP
Marie Hicks is Assistant Professor of History at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Publisher: MIT Press
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