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Title Recoding gender : women's changing participation in computing / Janet Abbate.
Author Abbate, Janet.
Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
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Description x, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series History of computing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Women in computer science.
Computer industry.
ISBN 9780262018067 (hardcover : alk. paper) : $32.00
0262018063 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Standard No. 7646305