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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing)
by Mar Hicks
ISBN: 0262035545
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slater
· 2026-02-17 ·
Original thread
No true scotsman?
This is a good book on the topic:
https://www.amazon.com/Programmed-Inequality-Discarded-Techn...
This is a good book on the topic:
https://www.amazon.com/Programmed-Inequality-Discarded-Techn...