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  1. Recoding gender
    women's changing participation in computing
    Autor*in: Abbate, Janet
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780262305464; 0262305461
    RVK Klassifikation: MS 3050 ; SR 850
    Schriftenreihe: History of computing
    Schlagworte: 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; Array; Informatikerin; Frau; Geschlechterforschung; Computerindustrie; Informatik; Professionalisierung
    Umfang: 1 online resource (x, 247 pages), illustrations
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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 programming from the Second World War to the late twentieth century. Demonstrating how gender has shaped the culture of computing, she offers a valuable historical perspective on today's concerns over women's underrepresentation in the field. Abbate describes the experiences of women who worked with the earliest electronic digital computers: Colossus, the wartime codebreaking computer at Bletchley Park outside London, and the American ENIAC, developed to calculate ballistics. She examines postwar methods for recruiting programmers, and the 1960s redefinition of programming as the more masculine "software engineering." She describes the social and business innovations of two early software entrepreneurs, Elsie Shutt and Stephanie Shirley; and she examines the career paths of women in academic computer science. Abbate's account of the bold and creative strategies of women who loved computing work, excelled at it, and forged successful careers will provide inspiration for those working to change gendered computing culture
  2. Recoding gender
    women's changing participation in computing
    Autor*in: Abbate, Janet
    Erschienen: c2012
    Verlag:  MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

    Standort:
    Technische Hochschule Augsburg
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    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe

    Standort:
    Hochschulbibliothek Ingolstadt
    Fernleihe:
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0262305461; 1283953099; 9780262305464; 9781283953092
    RVK Klassifikation: MS 3050 ; SR 850
    Schriftenreihe: History of computing
    Schlagworte: COMPUTERS / Computer Literacy; COMPUTERS / Computer Science; COMPUTERS / Data Processing; COMPUTERS / Hardware / General; COMPUTERS / Information Technology; COMPUTERS / Machine Theory; COMPUTERS / Reference; Computer industry; Women in computer science; COMPUTERS / History; Geschichte; Informatik; Women in computer science; Computer industry; Informatikerin; Frau; Professionalisierung; Geschlechterforschung; Computerindustrie; Informatik
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 247 p.)
    Bemerkung(en):

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-242) and index

    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 programming from the Second World War to the late twentieth century. Demonstrating how gender has shaped the culture of computing, she offers a valuable historical perspective on today's concerns over women's underrepresentation in the field. Abbate describes the experiences of women who worked with the earliest electronic digital computers: Colossus, the wartime codebreaking computer at Bletchley Park outside London, and the American ENIAC, developed to calculate ballistics. She examines postwar methods for recruiting programmers, and the 1960s redefinition of programming as the more masculine "software engineering." She describes the social and business innovations of two early software entrepreneurs, Elsie Shutt and Stephanie Shirley; and she examines the career paths of women in academic computer science. Abbate's account of the bold and creative strategies of women who loved computing work, excelled at it, and forged successful careers will provide inspiration for those working to change gendered computing culture