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Book Title
Programmed Inequality
Publication Name
Programmed Inequality : How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
Title
Programmed Inequality
EAN
9780262535182
ISBN
9780262535182
Publisher
MIT Press
Format
Trade Paperback
Release Year
2018
Release Date
23/02/2018
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Length
8.9 in
Language
English
Subtitle
How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Co
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Author
Mar Hicks
Genre
Business & Finance
Topic
Society & Culture
Subject Area
Computers, Business & Economics, Social Science
Subject
Industries / Computers & Information Technology, Discrimination & Race Relations, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History
Series
History of Computing Ser.
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
16.6 Oz
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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This "sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias" explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers- women ( Harvard Magazine ) 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 , Mar 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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262535181
ISBN-13
9780262535182
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239743601

Product Key Features

Author
Mar Hicks
Publication Name
Programmed Inequality : How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Industries / Computers & Information Technology, Discrimination & Race Relations, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History
Series
History of Computing Ser.
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Computers, Business & Economics, Social Science
Number of Pages
352 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.9 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
16.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Hd6060.5
Reviews
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., 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., "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 "...makes a detailed historical and symbolic case for suppressed and unvalued women talent, and bad management for a whole country in a strategical sector." -- Neural, 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., 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.
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
331.40941/09045
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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