Book Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing) Pdf
Title : Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing)
ISBN : 0262535181
Release Date : 2018-02-23
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ISBN : 0262535181
Release Date : 2018-02-23
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Programmed Inequality Programmed Inequality How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing by Marie Hicks MIT Press January 2017 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 Programmed Inequality How Britain Discarded Women Her deep dive into how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing the subtitle is a sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias―a problem that persists in many technical fields today Programmed Inequality The MIT Press Summary 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 governments systematic neglect of its largest trained technical workforce simply because they were women Programmed Inequality How Britain Discarded Women Programmed Inequality How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing 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 Programmed Inequality How Britain Discarded Women Programmed Inequality How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing History of Computing Kindle edition by Marie Hicks William Aspray Download it once and read it on your Kindle device PC phones or tablets Use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading Programmed Inequality How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Programmed Inequality How Britain Discarded Women Programmed Inequality How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing Programmed Inequality How Britain Discarded Women For the book subtitle of How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing it very much proves the first half The second half is harder to prove and somewhere that I felt the book didnt over as well It is true that the British computing industry suffered and that ICT has issues this is presented well and clearly
