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Hicks, Mar.
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Women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Sex discrimination in employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Electronic data processing -- Great Britain -- History.
Technocracy.
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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.
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Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing / Marie [Mar] Hicks.
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Hicks, Mar.
MIT Press, 2017.
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.4094109
H631p
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Women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Sex discrimination in employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Electronic data processing -- Great Britain -- History.
Technocracy.
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History of computing.
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9780262535182 (pbk.)
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x, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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.
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