Recoding gender
by Janet Abbate · first published 2012
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Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. 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 prog
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Lot's of nice photos here. The eminent Computer historian Janet Abbate's Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participating in Computing (2012) is an history (and historiography) of women in computing. Highly recommended.
on “Human Computers: The Women Who Powered Early Technology” ↗I read a book called Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing, thought it was very good
on “Women Who Code Closing” ↗…society... They are especially at a loss to understand the smooth functioning of a programming group based on mutual respect for individual talent and cooperation in the common cause." Janet Abbate - Recoding Gender, p93-95
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