If you want to learn more about women programmers in the 60s in the UK and why Stephanie Shirley had to open her own company (spoil: because women were actively

If you want to learn more about women programmers in the 60s in the UK and why Stephanie Shirley had to open her own company (spoil: because women were actively push out of the field), Marie Hicks is the specialist.[0] She wrote a book, Programmed Inequality. She studied Shirley’s story of course, and did an interview of Shirley last year.[1] The article “only the clothes changed: Women Operators in British Computing and Advertising, 1950–1970” from Hicks is a great start into her analysis of the period. It’s a very different history of computing and programmers that the one that was told just a few years ago.[2] [0] http://marhicks.com/ http://marhicks.com/ [1] http://mariehicks.net/blog/?p=705 http://mariehicks.net/blog/?p=705 [2] http://mariehicks.net/writing/clothes.html http://mariehicks.net/writing/clothes.html