Gender Codes Why Women Are Leaving Computing

Name: Gender Codes Why Women Are Leaving Computing
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ISBN: 9780470597194

ISBN-10: 0470597194

ISBN-13: 9780470597194

Edition: 2010

Authors: Thomas J. Misa

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The computing profession faces a serious gender crisis. Today, fewer women enter computing than anytime in the past 25 years. This book provides an unprecedented look at the history of women and men in computing, detailing how the computing profession emerged and matured, and how the field became male coded. Women'²s experiences working in offices, education, libraries, programming, and government are examined for clues on how and where women succeeded-and where they struggled. It also provides a unique international dimension with studies examining the U.S., Great Britain, Germany, Norway, and Greece. Scholars in history, gender/women'²s studies, and science and technology studies, as well…

Book details

Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 8/20/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 7.05" wide x 10.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


Contributors



Tools for Understanding



Gender Codes: Defining the Problem




Computer Science: The Incredible Shrinking Woman




Masculinity and the Machine Man: Gender in the History of Data Processing




Institutional Life



A Gendered Job Carousel: Employment Effects of Computer Automation




Meritocracy and Feminization in Conflict: Computerization in the British Government




Making Programming Masculine




Gender and Computing in the Push-Button Library




Media and Culture



Cultural Perceptions of Computers in Norway 1980--2007: From "Anybody" Via "Male Experts" to "Everybody"




Constructing Gender and Technology in Advertising Images: Feminine and Masculine Computer Parts




Women in Computing



The Pleasure Paradox: Bridging the Gap Between Popular Images of Computing and Women's Historical Experiences




Programming Enterprise: Women Entrepreneurs in Software and Computer Services




Gender Codes: Lessons from History




Gender Codes: Prospects for Change



Bibliography


Index