Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing by Mar Hicks

Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing

History of Computing

Mar Hicks

352 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction computer science feminism gender history politics technology informative reflective slow-paced
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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 h...

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