Marie Hicks (historian)

Marie Hicks
Academic background
Education

Ph.D. and MA in History (Duke University)

BA in Modern European History (Harvard)
Academic work
Institutions University of Wisconsin–Madison, Illinois Institute of Technology

Marie Hicks is a historian of technology, gender and modern Europe, notable for their work on the history of women in computing. Hicks is currently a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, sits on the Executive Committee of the Society for the History of Technology, and is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Hicks's work focuses on issues of gender discrimination in the computing industry.[1] Their book "Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge In Computing" [2] reveals a switch in the 1960s and 1970s, where as computing roles became more powerful, women who dominated computer programming roles were systematically replaced with men.[3][4][5][6][7] Hicks is known for drawing from this history when writing about contemporary gender issues in the computing industry.[8][9][10][11][12] Hicks has also written about the early history of computer dating in the mainframe era, showing that women were at the forefront of creating computer dating businesses, contrary to what was previously thought.[13][14]

Hicks was appointed assistant professor of history of technology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the fall of 2017. Prior to that they were an assistant professor of history at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, and had also taught as a visiting assistant professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina.

Hicks uses they/them pronouns[15].

References

  1. ↑ "The Numbers of Women in Tech Rise and Fall, But Sexual Harassment is Ever Present". IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  2. ↑ Marie,, Hicks,. Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing. Cambridge, MA. ISBN 0262035545. OCLC 954037938.
  3. ↑ Brewer, Kirstie (2017-08-10). "How the tech industry wrote women out of history". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  4. ↑ "Women in Tech and the History Behind That Controversial Google Diversity Memo". Time. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  5. ↑ "Why Women Programmers Were the Foundation of the Computing Age, and Where They Went". Chicago magazine. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  6. ↑ "Book review: Britain's code-breaking women overlooked". The National. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  7. ↑ "Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing, by Marie Hicks". Times Higher Education (THE). 2017-04-06. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  8. ↑ Hicks, Marie (2017-08-09). "Opinion | Memo to the Google memo writer: Women were foundational to the field of computing". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  9. ↑ Hicks, Marie. "What the Google gender 'manifesto' really says about Silicon Valley". The Conversation. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  10. ↑ Hicks, Marie (2017-02-13). "Hidden Figures is a groundbreaking book. But the film? Not so much". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  11. ↑ "'Women Were in Fact Pioneers in Computing Work'". FAIR. 2017-09-05. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  12. ↑ Posner, Miriam (2017-03-14). "We can teach women to code, but that just creates another problem". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  13. ↑ "The Mother of All Swipes". Logic Magazine. 2017-09-18. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  14. ↑ "Computer Love: Replicating Social Order Through Early Computer Dating Systems - Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology". Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology. 2016-10-31. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  15. ↑ "Main | Marie Hicks". mariehicks.net. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
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