Cracking the Bro Code
Published on 9. April 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-262-54705-5 (ISBN)
Description
"Cracking the Bro-Code is an ethnography that engages women navigating male-dominated cultures of computing. It provides evidence of women's experiences to reveal the values and practices of U.S.-based high-tech institutions and how they reproduce discrimination and harassment not only in their workplaces, but also in the broader political economy"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 152 mm
Width: 229 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
256 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-54705-5 (9780262547055)
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Person
Coleen Carrigan
Content
Prologue
Introduction
Chapter 1: Gendered Labor in Computing
Chapter 2: Why Care About Sexism in STEM?
Chapter 3: Contradictions of Care: Altruistic Aspirations and Reproductive Politics in Computing
Chapter 4: Technically, ‘You’re Different, and Different Isn’t Free’
Chapter 5: Women Making Culture: Profiles of Persistence in Computing
Chapter 6: Transforming the Computing Workforce and the Social Architecture of Its Labor Value
References
Appendix A
Introduction
Chapter 1: Gendered Labor in Computing
Chapter 2: Why Care About Sexism in STEM?
Chapter 3: Contradictions of Care: Altruistic Aspirations and Reproductive Politics in Computing
Chapter 4: Technically, ‘You’re Different, and Different Isn’t Free’
Chapter 5: Women Making Culture: Profiles of Persistence in Computing
Chapter 6: Transforming the Computing Workforce and the Social Architecture of Its Labor Value
References
Appendix A