Hicks, Marie L.
Programmed Inequality
- ISBN 13:
- 9780262535182
- author:
- Hicks, Marie L.
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Mit Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 352
- Dimensions:
- 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Gender Studies,
- Condition:
- New
- supplier_id:
- 59
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Britain's early dominance in computing was short-lived due to its failure to manage its technical labor force. By 1974, the British computer industry had all but disappeared. This happened despite women being a hidden engine of growth in high technology from World War II to the 1960s. The government's systematic neglect of its largest trained technical workforce - women - was a major factor in this decline. As computing became male-dominated in the 1960s and 1970s, labor problems grew into structural ones, leading to disastrous decisions that affected the British computer industry and the nation as a whole. This book explores the story behind Britain's loss of its edge in computing, revealing how gender bias and discrimination led to a failure of technological meritocracy.
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