TY  - DATA
AU  - Hicks,Mar
TI  - Programmed inequality: how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing 
T2  - History of computing
SN  - 9780262342933 (ebook) :
U1  - 331.413309410904 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Sex discrimination in employment
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Women
KW  - Employment
KW  - Women in technology
KW  - Computer industry
KW  - Employees
KW  - Electronic data processing
KW  - Industry
KW  - ukslc
KW  - United Kingdom, Great Britain
KW  - thema
KW  - 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
KW  - 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100
KW  - Social discrimination & equal treatment
KW  - Gender studies: women & girls
KW  - Labour economics
KW  - Information technology industries
N1  - Originally published: 2017; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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, Marie 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
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