Recoding Gender : Women's Changing Participation in Computing.
Title:
Recoding Gender : Women's Changing Participation in Computing.
Author:
Abbate, Janet.
ISBN:
9780262305464
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (259 pages)
Series:
History of Computing
Contents:
History of Computing Series -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rediscovering Women's History in Computing -- Chapter 1 Breaking Codes and Finding Trajectories: Women at the Dawn of the Digital Age -- Chapter 2 Seeking the Perfect Programmer: Gender and Skill in Early Data Processing -- Chapter 3 Software Crisis or Identity Crisis? Gender, Labor, and Programming Methods -- Chapter 4 Female Entrepreneurs: Reimagining Software as a Business -- Chapter 5 Gender in Academic Computing: Alternative Career Paths and Norms -- Appendix: Oral History Interviews Conducted For This Project -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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