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Programmed Inequality

Author : Mar Hicks
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262535181
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Programmed Inequality written by Mar Hicks and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias” explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women (Harvard Magazine) In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds lessons for all postindustrial superpowers. As Britain struggled to use technology to retain its global power, the nation’s inability to manage its technical labor force hobbled its transition into the information age. In Programmed Inequality, Mar Hicks explores the story of labor feminization and gendered technocracy that undercut British efforts to computerize. That failure sprang from the government’s systematic neglect of its largest trained technical workforce simply because they were women. Women were a hidden engine of growth in high technology from World War II to the 1960s. As computing experienced a gender flip, becoming male-identified in the 1960s and 1970s, labor problems grew into structural ones and gender discrimination caused the nation’s largest computer user—the civil service and sprawling public sector—to make decisions that were disastrous for the British computer industry and the nation as a whole. Drawing on recently opened government files, personal interviews, and the archives of major British computer companies, Programmed Inequality takes aim at the fiction of technological meritocracy. Hicks explains why, even today, possessing technical skill is not enough to ensure that women will rise to the top in science and technology fields. Programmed Inequality shows how the disappearance of women from the field had grave macroeconomic consequences for Britain, and why the United States risks repeating those errors in the twenty-first century.

Women's Work in Britain and America

Author : Mary Drake McFeely
Publisher : Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Women's Work in Britain and America written by Mary Drake McFeely and published by Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall. This book was released on 1982 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

British And American Women At Work

Author : Shirley Dex
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349182672
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book British And American Women At Work written by Shirley Dex and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-07-02 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transforming Women's Work

Author : Thomas L. Dublin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501723820
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Women's Work written by Thomas L. Dublin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am not living upon my friends or doing housework for my board but am a factory girl," asserted Anna Mason in the early 1850s. Although many young women who worked in the textile mills found that the industrial revolution brought greater independence to their lives, most working women in nineteenth-century New England did not, according to Thomas Dublin. Sketching engaging portraits of women's experience in cottage industries, factories, domestic service, and village schools, Dublin demonstrates that the autonomy of working women actually diminished as growing numbers lived with their families and contributed their earnings to the household. From diaries, letters, account books, and censuses, Dublin reconstructs employment patterns across the century as he shows how wage work increasingly came to serve the needs of families, rather than of individual women. He first examines the case of rural women engaged in the cottage industries of weaving and palm-leaf hatmaking between 1820 and 1850. Next, he compares the employment experiences of women in the textile mills of Lowell and the shoe factories of Lynn. Following a discussion of Boston working women in the middle decades of the century-particularly domestic servants and garment workers-Dublin turns his attention to the lives of women teachers in three New Hampshire towns.

British And American Women At Work

Author : Shirley Dex
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book British And American Women At Work written by Shirley Dex and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1986-07-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women's Work in East and West: The Dual Burden of Employment and Family Life

Author : Norman Stockman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315481073
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Women's Work in East and West: The Dual Burden of Employment and Family Life written by Norman Stockman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unmasking Administrative Evil discusses the overlooked relationship between evil and public affairs, as well as other fields and professions in public life.

Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain

Author : Joyce Burnette
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139470582
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain written by Joyce Burnette and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates instead that gender differences in occupations and wages were instead largely driven by market forces. Her findings reveal that rather than harming women competition actually helped them by eroding the power that male workers needed to restrict female employment and minimising the gender wage gap by sorting women into the least strength-intensive occupations. Where the strength requirements of an occupation made women less productive than men, occupational segregation maximised both economic efficiency and female incomes. She shows that women's wages were then market wages rather than customary and the gender wage gap resulted from actual differences in productivity.

From Spinster to Career Woman

Author : Arlene Young
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773558489
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book From Spinster to Career Woman written by Arlene Young and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work. Anxiety over the growing disproportion between women and men in the population, combined with an awakening desire among young women for personal and financial freedom, led progressive thinkers to advocate for increased employment opportunities. The major stumbling block was the persistent conviction that middle-class women - "ladies" - could not work without relinquishing their social status. Through media reports, public lectures, and fictional portrayals of working women, From Spinster to Career Woman traces advocates' efforts to alter cultural perceptions of women, work, class, and the ideals of womanhood. Focusing on the archetypal figures of the hospital nurse and the typewriter, Arlene Young analyzes the strategies used to transform a job perceived as menial into a respected profession and to represent office work as progressive employment for educated women. This book goes beyond a standard examination of historical, social, and political realities, delving into the intense human elements of a cultural shift and the hopes and fears of young women seeking independence. Providing new insights into the Victorian period, From Spinster to Career Woman captures the voices of ordinary women caught up in the frustrations and excitements of a new era.

EBOOK: Embodying Women's Work

Author : Caroline Gatrell
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335236766
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book EBOOK: Embodying Women's Work written by Caroline Gatrell and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between women’s reproductive bodies and women’s productive work? How does women’s potential for maternity affect women’s workplace opportunity? How far can women ’choose’ and maintain their own embodied boundaries in relation to work and working practices? This fascinating and topical book evaluates the growing debate on gender, women’s bodies, and work. Through the lens of the body - and from a feminist perspective - Gatrell considers women’s work from two angles, the first conceptualizing the labour of maternity as women’s work, the second exploring the dynamics between women’s bodies and employment. The author suggests that maternity constitutes women’s work, with some women ‘expected’ to produce children, while others are criticised for giving birth. She calls for the re-conceptualization of pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding as forms of labour – asserting that mothers are required to perform particular forms of body work in order to comply with ideals of ‘good’ mothering and norms of the workplace. The book observes that these are conflicting requirements, which place irreconcilable demands on women and constrain women’s choice. At the heart of Embodying Women’s Work is the idea that women’s bodies are central to gendered power relations, and remain a negotiated site of power between men and women within late modern society. The book considers women’s bodies in the context of different forms of paid work, discussing how far women remain at an economic disadvantage in comparison with male workers. Embodying Women’s Work is of key interest for students and academics of sociology, social welfare and women’s studies.

We Were There

Author : Barbara M. Wertheimer
Publisher : New York : Pantheon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book We Were There written by Barbara M. Wertheimer and published by New York : Pantheon Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative history of women's work from pre-colonial times to the present.

Women and Paid Work

Author : Audrey Hunt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349192937
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Women and Paid Work written by Audrey Hunt and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-07-04 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Author : Michelle M. Dowd
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230620396
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture written by Michelle M. Dowd and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dowd investigates literature's engagement with the gendered conflicts of early modern England by examining the narratives that seventeenth-century dramatists created to describe the lives of working women.

Women's Work And Women's Lives

Author : Hilda Kahne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000009610
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Work And Women's Lives written by Hilda Kahne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a provocative analysis of the nature of the relation between women and paid work in both modernizing and industrial countries. It explores the variables that shape the relationship: demographic factors, the social and cultural context, and the direction of economic development.

Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies

Author : Rosemary O'Day
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 9780582294639
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies written by Rosemary O'Day and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2007 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From culture to childbirth, money to marriage and wooing to widowhood, Rosemary O'Day introduces us to the lives of women in early modern Britain and the North American colonies. Dispelling the myth that women during this period were weak characters dominated by husbands and fathers, O'Day reveals these women to be important agents in the social, economic, religious and cultural lives of their societies who exercised considerable influence on the world around them. Strong women, she argues, were not the exception but the norm at this time and in many, even most, cases their menfolk valued and colluded in their strength. These women did not exist in a vacuum. In examining the differing lives of married women in the old and new worlds O'Day challenges the assumption that women of the North American colonies had more agency than those in Britain. She demonstrates that gender is indeed a social construct and that different societies will construct it differently. However, far from leading us into the realms of abstract speculation, O'Day focuses on the real lives of real women, exploring how far their experience was determined by their family roles and to what extent they existed as individuals, expanding their own horizonsand those of future women.

Women’s Work in Britain and France

Author : Abigail Gregory
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023059851X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Women’s Work in Britain and France written by Abigail Gregory and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-01-27 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Work in Britain and France is a ground-breaking retheorization of what constitutes 'progress' in gender relations. The book shows that French women, although having more full-time and continuous careers and greater social policy support, retain as great a responsibility for unpaid domestic and caring work as their British counterparts. It replaces the conventional focus upon encouraging women's increased insertion into employment as the principal strategy for achieving progress in gender relations with a new focus on changing men's work patterns.

Key Issues in Women's Work

Author : Catherine Hakim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135310882
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Key Issues in Women's Work written by Catherine Hakim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's employment is one of the most widely-discussed and often-misunderstood issues of modern society. Are women today oppressed, or do they have the best of both worlds? Do women have to go out to work to gain equality with men, or do they already do more than their share of domestic work, caring work and voluntary work as well as work in the informal economy? Do women seek careers on the same terms as men, or are they content to be dependent wives or secondary earners taking jobs on a short-term basis? How important is job segregation in explaining the 20% pay gap between men and women? Have equal opportunities laws had any real impact? Are women in Europe lagging behind, or are they at the forefront of developments in modern societies? This new updated edition of Catherine Hakim's classic text addresses all the key issues currently debated in relation to women's work - in the domestic sphere, as well as paid employment. Dr Hakim tests the power of patriarchy theory and preference theory against economic theories. Sex discrimination, work-life balance, part-time work, flexible hours, homeworking, career patterns across the life cycle, labour mobility, labour turnover, the returns to education, occupational segregation, the pay gap, the glass ceiling, and the impact of European Union policies are all considered. Analysis of historical developments over the twentieth century, based on censuses, is complemented by case studies of people working in occupations undergoing dramatic change. Throughout the book, comparisons are drawn between the USA, Britain, other European countries, Canada, Australia, and also China, Japan and other Far Eastern societies. The analysis draws on sociology, economics, psychology, labour law, history and social anthropology to conclude that the diversity of women's life goals and lifestyle preferences is increasing. This explains the growing polarisation of women's employment and many contradictory recent research results.

Women's Health in Britain and America

Author : April Patrick
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031412575
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Women's Health in Britain and America written by April Patrick and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women’s Health in Britain and America: Texts and Contexts offers an unparalleled record of women’s health in the United Kingdom and the United States since 1750. Through chapters on pregnancy and childbirth, contraception and abortion, and breast and gynecological cancers, today’s readers can better understand historical precedents for contemporary issues. Introductory overviews present context about the history of medical care for women, such as diagnosis and treatment of specific conditions, medical advances, social and political contexts, and the effects of these on their lived experiences. The book presents a collection of primary texts including archival memoirs, letters, and diaries as well as published fiction, poetry, and medical advice. Women’s Health in Britain and America provides the necessary background for those new to the subject while also offering unique texts that will engage those already immersed in the field. As the political and social discussions around women’s bodies become more contentious and consequential, the history and the multiplicity of voices presented on these pages are more important than ever.