Recoding Gender Women's Changing Participation in Computing

Name: Recoding Gender Women's Changing Participation in Computing
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ISBN: 9780262018067

ISBN-10: 0262018063

ISBN-13: 9780262018067

Edition: 2012

Authors: Janet Abbate

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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…

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List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/5/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 258
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Janet Abbate is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech and the author of Inventing the Internet (MIT Press, 1999).



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Rediscovering Women's History in Computing



Breaking Codes and Finding Trajectories: Women at the Dawn of the Digital Age



Seeking the Perfect Programmer: Gender and Skill in Early Data Processing



Software Crisis or Identity Crisis? Gender, Labor, and Programming Methods



Female Entrepreneurs: Reimagining Software as a Business



Gender in Academic Computing: Alternative Career Paths and Norms


Appendix: Oral History Interviews Conducted for This Project


Notes


Bibliography


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