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Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing /

"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'...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hicks, Mar (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2017.
Series:History of computing.
Subjects:
Women computer industry employees > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Women > Employment > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Sex discrimination in employment > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Electronic data processing > Great Britain > History.
Technocracy.
Electronic data processing.
Sex discrimination in employment.
Women > Employment.
Great Britain.
Informatik.
Drahtschmiele.
Frau.
Sexismus.
Gro britannien.
Computers.
1900-1999
History.

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