2:00pm |
|
Visible Scholarship Initiative: Recoding Gender by Janet Abbate
(Special Event)
Janet Abbate, associate professor and co-director of the Department of Science and Technology in Society at the National Capital Region, will visit Newman Library to present her book Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing.
About the book:
Today, women hold only a quarter of computer science degrees and technical computing jobs, and the stereotype of the male "computer geek" seems to be everywhere in popular culture. Few people know that women were a significant presence in the early decades of computing in the United States and Britain - indeed, in the 1950s, programming was often considered "woman's work." In Recoding Gender, Janet Abbate explores the untold history of women in computer science and programming from the Second World War to the late twentieth century.
The Visible Scholarship Initiative is a collaboration between the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences and the University Libraries that seeks to make visible the stages of research and creative scholarship in the liberal arts and human sciences. Illustrating how faculty address key questions, employ varied methods, and produce significant results makes it possible to acknowledge and encourage research and creative activities that engage challenging questions and demonstrate sophisticated understanding.
More information...
|
540-231-6181