Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing

by Marie Hicks and Marie Hicks

Book Overview

How Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262035545
• ISBN13: 9780262035545
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher