When Winning Is Losing: Why the Nation that Invented the Computer Lost Its Lead.

The nation that invented the computer lost its lead by discarding its most plentiful supply of trained technologists: women. This article discusses why failure narratives are as important to understanding the history of computing as success stories, and explains how structural sexism has affected th...

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Published in:Computer (00189162) Vol. 51; no. 10; pp. 48 - 58
Main Author: Hicks, Marie
Format: Article
Published: IEEE Nov2018
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