Recoding gender : women's changing participation in computing /

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 ea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Abbate, Janet
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
Colección:History of computing.
Temas:
Women in computer science.
Computer industry.
Femmes en informatique.
Informatique > Industrie.
COMPUTERS > Computer Literacy.
COMPUTERS > Computer Science.
COMPUTERS > Data Processing.
COMPUTERS > Hardware > General.
COMPUTERS > Information Technology.
COMPUTERS > Machine Theory.
COMPUTERS > Reference.
COMPUTERS > History.
Computer industry
Women in computer science
Informatikerin
Programmiererin
Informatik
Computerindustrie
Frauenforschung
Geschlechterforschung
COMPUTER SCIENCE/History of Computing
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Gender Studies
Electronic books.
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Rediscovering Women's History in Computing
  • 1. Breaking Codes and Finding Trajectories: Women at the Dawn of the Digital Age
  • 2. Seeking the Perfect Programmer: Gender and Skill in Early Data Processing
  • 3. Software Crisis or Identity Crisis? Gender, Labor, and Programming Methods
  • 4. Female Entrepreneurs: Reimagining Software as a Business
  • 5. Gender in Academic Computing: Alternative Career Paths and Norms
  • Appendix: Oral History Interviews Conducted for This Project.

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