02790nam 2200649 450 991026062710332120221206100246.00-262-34293-6(CKB)3710000001507797(CaBNVSL)mat07904022(IDAMS)0b00006485c8c0ec(IEEE)7904022(EXLCZ)99371000000150779720170801d2017 uy engur|n|||||||||rdacontentisbdmediardacarrierProgrammed inequality how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing /Marie HicksCambridge, Massachusetts :The MIT Press,[2017][Piscataqay, New Jersey] :IEEE Xplore,[2017]1 PDF (x, 342 pages) illustrationsHistory of computing0-262-53518-1 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 -- Data processing in peacetime: institutionalizing a feminized machine underclass, 1946-1955 -- Luck and labor shortage: gender flux, professionalization, and growing opportunities for computer workers, 1955-1967 -- The rise of the technocrat: how state attempts to centralize power through computing went astray, 1965-1969 -- The end of white heat and the failure of British technocracy, 1969- 1979 -- Conclusion: reassembling the history of computing around gender's formative influence -- Bibliography.History of computing.WomenEmploymentGreat BritainHistory20th centurySex discrimination in employmentGreat BritainHistory20th centuryElectronic data processingGreat BritainHistoryTechnocracyElectronic data processingfastSex discrimination in employmentfastTechnocracyfastWomenEmploymentfastComputersGreat BritainfastHistory.fastWomenEmploymentHistorySex discrimination in employmentHistoryElectronic data processingHistory.Technocracy.Electronic data processing.Sex discrimination in employment.Technocracy.WomenEmployment.Computers.331.40941/09045Hicks Marie848517CaBNVSLCaBNVSLCaBNVSLBOOK9910260627103321Programmed inequality1895260UNINA