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	Hicks, Marie     Options: All Media Types Journals Proceedings Div Books Whole Books Other Date Reviewed Title Author Publisher Published Date Descending Ascending Date Reviewed     1 - 2 of 2 reviews       Programmed inequality: how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing Hicks M., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2017. 352 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-262035-54-5) From 1930 to 1980, the transformation from underpaid labor to equal pay for workers can truly be stated as a radical change for British women opting for computing jobs. In Britain, the position of female workers as computer operators o...... Jun 6 2018     Programmed inequality: how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing Hicks M., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2017.  Type: Book (9780262035545) Marie Hicks, the author, has to be congratulated as an American historian of technology for tackling the paradox of the UK’s leadership in the development of computers and computer applications during World War II, through th...... Jun 29 2017
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