Recoding Gender

Author: Janet Abbate
Edition:
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0262018063
Publisher: The MIT Press

Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing (History of Computing)

Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs.
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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 hi

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