Recoding gender : women's changing participation in computing /

Abbate, Janet.

Recoding gender : women's changing participation in computing / Janet Abbate. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012. - x, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - History of computing .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: rediscovering women's history in computing -- Breaking codes and finding trajectories: women at the dawn of the digital age -- Seeking the perfect programmer: gender and skill in early data processing -- Software crisis or identity crisis? Gender, labor, and programming methods -- Female entrepreneurs: reimagining software as a business -- Gender in academic computing: alternative career paths and norms -- Appendix: Oral history interviews conducted for this project..

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