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how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing

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"Programmed inequality" was published by MIT Press in 2017 - mau, it has 342 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: Programmed inequality
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 342
  • Publisher: MIT Press
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  • Pagination: x, 342 pages

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"Programmed inequality" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- Introduction: Britain's computer "revolution"
  • 2- War machines : women's computing work and the underpinnings of the data-driven state 1930-1946
  • 3- Peacetime data processing : institutionalizing a feminized machine underclass 1946-1954
  • 4- Luck and labor shortage : gender, professionalization, and opportunities for computer workers
  • 5- 1958-1969
  • 6- The rise of the technocrat : how state attempts to centralize power through computing went
  • 7- Astray 1967-1971
  • 8- The end of white heat and the failure of British technocracy, 1970-1979
  • 9- Conclusion: re-assembling the history of computing to show gender's formative role
  • 10- Bibliography.

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