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Programmed Inequality – How Britain Discarded Women Technologists
- Zenst 7y agoWAT - seriously I worked in that era with many females in technology - programmers, admins, system developers, engineers....all fields. Issue was selling of ICL and other development's, effectively selling of all the crown jewels.
- pinewurst 7y agoNot to ignore the forced nationalizations, thinking that having one "state champion" would allow competitiveness against IBM. Of course innovation went to hell given the aggressive minimization of internal (UK market) competition.
- Zenst 7y agoYes the whole Snow White and Seven dwarfs of the big IT companies was one footnote in history we can not forget. Something born out in many countries.