Hicks, Marie, <br/><br/>
Programmed inequality :  how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing / 
Marie Hicks. 
 - x, 342 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
 - History of computing .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: Britain's computer "revolution" -- War machines : women's computing work and the underpinnings of the data-driven state 1930-1946 -- Peacetime data processing : institutionalizing a feminized machine underclass 1946-1954 -- Luck and labor shortage : gender, professionalization, and opportunities for computer workers -- 1958-1969 -- The rise of the technocrat : how state attempts to centralize power through computing went -- Astray 1967-1971 -- The end of white heat and the failure of British technocracy, 1970-1979 -- Conclusion: re-assembling the history of computing to show gender's formative role -- Bibliography. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262035545 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780262535182 (paperback) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016021258 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women--Employment--History--Great Britain--20th century.<br/>Sex discrimination in employment--History--Great Britain--20th century.<br/>Electronic data processing--History.--Great Britain<br/>Technocracy.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD6135  / .H53 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>331.40941/09045