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Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing

Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing

Abbate, Janet

Paperback

Series: History of Computing

General ComputersWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0262534533
ISBN13: 9780262534536
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Sep 8 2017
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 United States and Britain. Indeed, programming in postwar years was considered woman's work (perhaps in contrast to the more manly task of building the computers themselves). In Recoding Gender, Janet Abbate explores the untold history of women in computer science and programming from the Second World War to the late twentieth century. Demonstrating how gender has shaped the culture of computing, she offers a valuable historical perspective on today's concerns over women's underrepresentation in the field.

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