Recoding Gender
Women's Changing Participation in Computing
$71.73
- Paperback
258 pages
- Release Date
8 September 2017
Summary
The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.
Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male “computer geek” seems to be everywhere in popular culture. Few people know that women were a significant presence in the early decades of computing in both the United States and Britain. Indeed, programming in po…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262534536 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262534533 |
| Author: | Janet Abbate |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 258 |
| Release Date: | 8 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 258g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Recoding Gender |
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Through the stories of early women programmers such as the World War II ‘Wrens’ who worked on top-secret code decryption, entrepreneurs such as Stephanie Shirley who created and ran her own computing firm, and current-day computer scientists such as Anita Borg, Abbate does a marvelous job of describing the excitement, fun, and satisfaction that women past and present have found, and will continue to find, in computing work.
-Caroline Clarke Hayes, Technology and Culture This book is good reading for anyone who would like to explore the challenges of setting policies and gain a better understanding of the gender dynamics of a scientific and technical workforce.
-Maxine Cohen, Computing Reviews Abbate’s chapters are, as readers of her earlier work expect, trenchant, precise, and compelling, for she carefully connects technical considerations with social dimensions to provide thick description of behaviors in action.
-Carol Colatrella, nternational Journal of Gender, Science, and Technology
About The Author
Janet Abbate
Janet Abbate is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech and the author of Inventing the Internet (MIT Press, 1999).
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