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Lädt ... Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing) (2017. Auflage)von Marie Hicks (Autor), William Aspray (Herausgeber), Thomas J. Misa (Herausgeber)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A reminder that when anyone talks about women’s underrepresentation in computer science/programming as a result of choices/“natural” inclinations, that person is at best ignorant. The book is repetitive, but that’s mainly because what happened to women kept happening, decade after decade: women would look for interesting or at least remunerative work, including technology jobs, and the men in charge would insist that jobs with women in them were bad jobs deserving of low pay. Hicks tracks this process through multiple decades, economic conditions, labor conditions, and legal conditions (e.g., when Britain at long last enacted equal pay legislation as a condition of its entry into the EEC, the British government very quickly shifted to worker categories that paid female-dominated lines less and kept those lines out of the promotion track). There are specific moments of outrage, such as the woman who’s forced to train her male replacements (because her job has been reclassified as a good, promotion-eligible one and thus she can’t have it any more) and then demoted to work under them, but mostly it’s about how policies work: in the aggregate, shaping technology more than technology shapes policy. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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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 its technical labor force hobbled its transition into the information age. In Programmed Inequality, Marie Hicks explores the story of labor feminization and gendered technocracy that undercut British efforts to computerize. That failure sprang from the government's systematic neglect of its largest trained technical workforce simply because they were women. Women were a hidden engine of growth in high technology from World War II to the 1960s. As computing experienced a gender flip, becoming male-identified in the 1960s and 1970s, labor problems grew into structural ones and gender discrimination caused the nation's largest computer user--the civil service and sprawling public sector--to make decisions that were disastrous for the British computer industry and the nation as a whole. Drawing on recently opened government files, personal interviews, and the archives of major British computer companies, Programmed Inequality takes aim at the fiction of technological meritocracy. Hicks explains why, even today, possessing technical skill is not enough to ensure that women will rise to the top in science and technology fields. Programmed Inequality shows how the disappearance of women from the field had grave macroeconomic consequences for Britain, and why the United States risks repeating those errors in the twenty-first century. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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