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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Choice Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Hicks, Mar.     Subjects     Women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.     Sex discrimination in employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.     Electronic data processing -- Great Britain -- History.     Technocracy.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hicks, Mar.       by title:      Programmed inequalit...       by call number:      331.4094109 H631p     Search the Web     Hicks, Mar.     Women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.     Sex discrimination in employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.     Electronic data processing -- Great Britain -- History.     Technocracy.       MARC Display

Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing / Marie [Mar] Hicks. by Hicks, Mar. MIT Press, 2017. Call #: 331.4094109 H631p Subjects Women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.   Sex discrimination in employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.   Electronic data processing -- Great Britain -- History.   Technocracy. Series History of computing. ISBN:  9780262535182 (pbk.) Description:  x, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-329) and index. Contents:  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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 331.4094109 H631p Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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