Hicks, Marie, <br/><br/>
Programmed inequality :  how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing / 
Marie Hicks. 
 - 1 PDF (x, 342 pages) :  illustrations. 
 - History of computing .
 - History of computing. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: Britain's computer "revolution" -- War machines: women's computing work and the underpinnings of the data-driven state, 1930-1946 -- Data processing in peacetime: institutionalizing a feminized machine underclass, 1946-1955 -- Luck and labor shortage: gender flux, professionalization, and growing opportunities for computer workers, 1955-1967 -- The rise of the technocrat: how state attempts to centralize power through computing went astray, 1965-1969 -- The end of white heat and the failure of British technocracy, 1969- 1979 -- Conclusion: reassembling the history of computing around gender's formative influence -- Bibliography. 
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<br/><br/><br/>Mode of access: World Wide Web 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262342933 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1900-1999 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women--Employment--History--Great Britain--20th century.<br/>Sex discrimination in employment--History--Great Britain--20th century.<br/>Electronic data processing--History.--Great Britain<br/>Technocracy.<br/>Electronic data processing.<br/>Sex discrimination in employment.<br/>Technocracy.<br/>Women--Employment.<br/>Computers.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Great Britain.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD6135  / .H53 2017eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>331.40941/09045