Author: Joseph French Johnson
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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The Modern Homestead Manual
Author: Skip Thomsen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780962596070
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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ISBN: 9780962596070
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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The National Union Catalog
Author:
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Category : Bibliography, International
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography, International
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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National Union Catalog
Author:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Library Bulletin
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Category : Building
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Category : Building
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Programmed Inequality
Author: Mar Hicks
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262535181
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This “sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias” explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women (Harvard Magazine) In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds lessons for all postindustrial superpowers. As Britain struggled to use technology to retain its global power, the nation’s inability to manage its technical labor force hobbled its transition into the information age. In Programmed Inequality, Mar Hicks explores the story of labor feminization and gendered technocracy that undercut British efforts to computerize. That failure sprang from the government’s systematic neglect of its largest trained technical workforce simply because they were women. Women were a hidden engine of growth in high technology from World War II to the 1960s. As computing experienced a gender flip, becoming male-identified in the 1960s and 1970s, labor problems grew into structural ones and gender discrimination caused the nation’s largest computer user—the civil service and sprawling public sector—to make decisions that were disastrous for the British computer industry and the nation as a whole. Drawing on recently opened government files, personal interviews, and the archives of major British computer companies, Programmed Inequality takes aim at the fiction of technological meritocracy. Hicks explains why, even today, possessing technical skill is not enough to ensure that women will rise to the top in science and technology fields. Programmed Inequality shows how the disappearance of women from the field had grave macroeconomic consequences for Britain, and why the United States risks repeating those errors in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262535181
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This “sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias” explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women (Harvard Magazine) In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds lessons for all postindustrial superpowers. As Britain struggled to use technology to retain its global power, the nation’s inability to manage its technical labor force hobbled its transition into the information age. In Programmed Inequality, Mar Hicks explores the story of labor feminization and gendered technocracy that undercut British efforts to computerize. That failure sprang from the government’s systematic neglect of its largest trained technical workforce simply because they were women. Women were a hidden engine of growth in high technology from World War II to the 1960s. As computing experienced a gender flip, becoming male-identified in the 1960s and 1970s, labor problems grew into structural ones and gender discrimination caused the nation’s largest computer user—the civil service and sprawling public sector—to make decisions that were disastrous for the British computer industry and the nation as a whole. Drawing on recently opened government files, personal interviews, and the archives of major British computer companies, Programmed Inequality takes aim at the fiction of technological meritocracy. Hicks explains why, even today, possessing technical skill is not enough to ensure that women will rise to the top in science and technology fields. Programmed Inequality shows how the disappearance of women from the field had grave macroeconomic consequences for Britain, and why the United States risks repeating those errors in the twenty-first century.
Manual with Courses of Study for the High Schools of Indiana
Author: Indiana. Department of Public Instruction
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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TT.
Author: Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information (U.S.)
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Translations of scientific and technical monographs and articles.
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Translations of scientific and technical monographs and articles.
Classified Catalogue
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
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Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
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ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
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Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 1907-1911
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
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