Gender in Academic Computing: Alternative Career Paths and Norms ：A BIT of Recoding Gender ( MIT Press BITS )

Publication subTitle ：A BIT of Recoding Gender

Publication series ：MIT Press BITS

Author： Abbate Janet

Publisher： MIT Press‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9780262319409

Subject： C913.68 Womens Issues

Keyword： COMPUTERS / History,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies

Language： ENG

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Few people know that women were a significant presence in the early decades of computing in both the United States and Britain; programming in postwar years was considered woman's work (perhaps in contrast to the more manly task of building the computers themselves). This BIT offers a chapter in this untold history of women and computing, describing women's career stratagems in academic computing -- recounting both the obstacles female scholars have faced and their resourceful strategies for gaining credentials and finding alternative ladders to visibility and career advancement.

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