Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing - Paperback
by Janet Abbate
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Availability:In StockContributor:Janet AbbateSeries:History of ComputingAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2017-09-08Pages:258
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262534536ISBN-10:262534533UPC:9780262534536Book Category:Computers, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Computer Science, History, Women's StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCZ6FZTM47
Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing
The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.
Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male "computer geek" seems to be everywhere in popular culture. Few people know that women were a significant presence in the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262534536ISBN-10:262534533UPC:9780262534536Book Category:Computers, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Computer Science, History, Women's StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCZ6FZTM47
Janet Abbate is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech and the author of Inventing the Internet (MIT Press, 1999).
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