Description: The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.
Review Quotes: Abbate's chapters are, as readers of her earlier work expect, trenchant, precise, and compelling, for she carefully connects technical considerations with social dimensions to provide thick description of behaviors in action.--Carol Colatrella, nternational Journal of Gender, Science, and Technology--
This book is good reading for anyone who would like to explore the challenges of setting policies and gain a better understanding of the gender dynamics of a scientific and technical workforce.
--Maxine Cohen, Computing Reviews--Through the stories of early women programmers such as the World War II 'Wrens' who worked on top-secret code decryption, entrepreneurs such as Stephanie Shirley who created and ran her own computing firm, and current-day computer scientists such as Anita Borg, Abbate does a marvelous job of describing the excitement, fun, and satisfaction that women past and present have found, and will continue to find, in computing work.
--Caroline Clarke Hayes, Technology and Culture--