Book description
The computing profession faces a serious gender crisis. Today, fewer
women enter computing than anytime in the past 25 years. This book
provides an unprecedented look at the history of women and men in
computing, detailing how the computing profession emerged and matured,
and how the field became male coded. Women's experiences working in
offices, education, libraries, programming, and government are examined
for clues on how and where women succeeded-and where they struggled. It
also provides a unique international dimension with studies examining
the U. S., Great Britain, Germany, Norway, and Greece. Scholars in
history, gender/women's studies, and science and technology studies, as
well as department chairs and hiring directors will find this volume
illuminating.
THOMAS J. MISA
is at the University of Minnesota, where he directs the Charles Babbage
Institute, teaches in the graduate program for the History of Science,
Technology, and Medicine, and is a faculty member in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering.
