Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing

by Janet Abbate

Book Overview

The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.

Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male "computer geek" seems to be everywhere in popular culture. Few people know that women were a significant presence in the early decades of computing in both the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262018063
• ISBN13: 9780262018067
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher