Programmed Inequality
How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
$54.07
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
23 February 2018
Summary
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. 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 in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262535182 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262535181 |
| Author: | Mar Hicks |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 23 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | History Of Computing |
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In this volume, Hicks has delivered a sophisticated work of scholarship: detailed, insightful, deeply researched…. But the book has a much wider relevance, too, which it would be unwise to understate. Discussing, as it does, the role of profoundly structural gender discrimination in the collapse of technical dominance by a formerly great power, this book makes very uncomfortable reading – on a number of levels.
* Times Higher Education *Fans of the movie Hidden Figures may be interested in this scholarly analysis of goings on across the Atlantic, by an historian of science at the Illinois Institute of Technology. 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.
* Harvard Magazine *About The Author
Mar Hicks
Mar Hicks is Associate Professor of History at Illinois Institute of Technology.
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