Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing / Mar Hicks.

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"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 postindustrial superpowers. As Britain struggled to use technology to retain its global power, the nation's inabili...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:History of computing.
Main Author: Hicks, Mar (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2017.
Series:History of computing.
Subjects:
Women computer industry employees > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Women > Employment > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Sex discrimination in employment > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Electronic data processing > Great Britain > History.
Technocracy.
Computers.
Technocratie.
Ordinateurs.
Informatique > Industrie > Personnel féminin > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Discrimination sexuelle dans l'emploi > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Women computer industry employees.
Electronic data processing.
Sex discrimination in employment.
Women > Employment.
Great Britain.
Informatik.
Drahtschmiele.
Börngen, ...
Sexismus.
Großbritannien.
Women.
Gender identity.
Computer industry > Great Britain.
Women in computer science > Great Britain.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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