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

"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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Uniform Title:History of computing.
Main Author: Hicks, Mar (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2017.
Series:History of computing.
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Physical Description:x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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505 0 |a 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, professionalization, and 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 to show gender's formative influence. 
520 |a "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 inability to manage its technical labor force hobbled its transition into the information age. In Programmed Inequality, Marie Hicks explores the story of labor feminization and gendered technocracy that undercut British efforts to computerize. That failure sprang from the government's systematic neglect of its largest trained technical workforce simply because they were women. Women were a hidden engine of growth in high technology from World War II to the 1960s. As computing experienced a gender flip, becoming male-identified in the 1960s and 1970s, labor problems grew into structural ones and gender discrimination caused the nation's largest computer user--the civil service and sprawling public sector--to make decisions that were disastrous for the British computer industry and the nation as a whole. Drawing on recently opened government files, personal interviews, and the archives of major British computer companies, Programmed Inequality takes aim at the fiction of technological meritocracy. Hicks explains why, even today, possessing technical skill is not enough to ensure that women will rise to the top in science and technology fields. Programmed Inequality shows how the disappearance of women from the field had grave macroeconomic consequences for Britain, and why the United States risks repeating those errors in the twenty-first century."--Publisher's description. 
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