| #834618 in Books | The MIT Press | 2012-10-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.56 x6.00l,1.08 | File type: PDF | 264 pages | ||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Insightful and Valuable Across Disciplines|By A. Smith|Janet Abbate's latest book, Recoding Gender (2012), provides an insightful and accessible account of women's role and (continual) challenges in computing fields (e.g., Computer Science and Software Engineering). She explores the barriers, both subtle and explicit, that have contributed to the underrepresentation of women in|||We've heard stories about women pioneers in computing, and some of us have our own to tell, but Janet Abbate captivates us as she recounts the roles of early women in defining the field. These inventive women did more than battle limiting rules and expectatio
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 buildi...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing (History of Computing) | Janet Abbate.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
