Programmed Inequality - How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in ComputingPaperback
Programmed Inequality - How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in ComputingPaperback How Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against…
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Programmed Inequality - How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in ComputingPaperback
How Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women.In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds lessons for all postindustrial superpowers. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct.
That failure sprang from the government's systematic neglect of its largest trained technical workforce simply because they were women. 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. Women were a hidden engine of growth in high technology from World War
How The Brain Lost Its Mind
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