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Author Carrigan, Coleen, author.

Title Cracking the bro code / Coleen Carrigan.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]

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 Avon Free Public Library - New Materials  331.48 CARRIGAN    Check Shelf
Description xii, 193 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Labor and technology
Labor and technology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Gendered Labor in Computing -- Why Care about Sexism in STEM? -- Contradictions of Care: Altruistic Aspirations and Reproductive Politics in Computing -- Technically, "You're Different, and Different Isn't Free" -- Women Making Culture: Profiles of Persistence in Computing -- Transforming the Computing Workforce and the Social Architecture of Its Labor Value.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Women computer industry employees -- United States.
Sexual harassment of women -- United States.
Sex discrimination against women -- United States.
Male domination (Social structure) -- United States.
Male domination (Social structure)
Male domination (Social structure) (OCoLC)fst01741391
Sex discrimination against women (OCoLC)fst01114376
Sexual harassment of women (OCoLC)fst01114883
Women computer industry employees (OCoLC)fst01177519
United States (OCoLC)fst01204155
Other Form: Online version: Carrigan, Coleen. Cracking the bro code Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023] 9780262377164 (DLC) 2023028855
ISBN 9780262547055 paperback
0262547058 paperback
9780262377164 electronic book
9780262377157 electronic book
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