Programmed inequality: how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing

Introduction: Britain's computer "revolution"

War machines : women's computing work and the underpinnings of the data-driven state 1930-1946

Peacetime data processing : institutionalizing a feminized machine underclass 1946-1954

Luck and labor shortage : gender, professionalization, and opportunities for computer workers

1958-1969

The rise of the technocrat : how state attempts to centralize power through computing went

Astray 1967-1971

The end of white heat and the failure of British technocracy, 1970-1979

Conclusion: re-assembling the history of computing to show gender's formative role

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