Browsing by Subject "Urban Minorities Workshop"
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Item Oral history interview with Barbara H. Hornbach(Charles Babbage Institute, 2015-12-10) Hornbach, Barbara H.Barbara Hornbach attended Vassar College where she worked with pioneering computer scientist Winifred Asprey and led the local student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. After her graduation in 1969, she began a career in software development and management with Bell Laboratories in Naperville, Illinois. The interview describes her technical work at Bell (on 4ESS and 5ESS) as well as participation in affirmative action committees and workshops within Bell. During 1980-84, Hornbach chaired a standardization sub-committee within CCITT dealing with human-machine interface standards for telephone switching systems. This material is based on work funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award B2014-07 “Tripling Women’s Participation in Computing (1965-1985).”Item Oral history interview with Helen Ann Bauer(Charles Babbage Institute, 2015-12-08) Bauer, Helen AnnHelen Bauer studied computer science and mathematics at Purdue University, graduating in 1972 and then starting work as a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories in Naperville, Illinois. The interview describes Bell’s affirmative action committees and workshops and its corporate culture. Bauer relates her experiences moving into managerial positions beginning in 1977, finding role models in co-workers, organizing support groups for women in management, and relating anecdotes about challenges. This material is based on work funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award B2014-07 “Tripling Women’s Participation in Computing (1965-1985).”Item Oral history interview with M. Kathleen (Kathy) Detrano(Charles Babbage Institute, 2015-12-17) Detrano, M. KathleenKathy Detrano describes her childhood and single-sex Catholic education that led her to major in mathematics at Chestnut Hill College (near Philadelphia). After graduating, she came to Bell Laboratories in the late 1960s initially to work on the Safeguard Ballistic Missile Defense System, then moved to database access and quality control assignments as a manager. She describes Bell’s affirmative action programs, including several anecdotes about male managers, including those who supported women. The interview discusses specific strategies women at Bell used to confront and diffuse gender discrimination. This material is based on work funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award B2014-07 “Tripling Women’s Participation in Computing (1965-1985).”Item Oral history interview with Marda Higdon Jones(Charles Babbage Institute, 2016-01-06) Jones, Marda HigdonMarda Higdon Jones went to high school in Iowa City and attended Iowa State University, graduating in 1972 with a major in mathematics and minor in computer science, and accepting a job with Bell Labs in Naperville, IL. In 1976, after being promoted to MTS, she completed a master’s degree at Northwestern University (and, later, an executive MBA from Columbia University). She discuses the influence on her and her colleagues of the 1970s women’s movement and affirmative action programs at AT&T, including the Men and Women in the Work Environment and Urban Minorities workshops. In the 1970s she worked in software development, then after a one-year rotational assignment in New Jersey, she returned to Naperville in a managerial position and then moved to Holmdel, NJ, as department head in systems engineering then division manager for network architecture. In 1988 she was promoted to director at Bell Labs, and the interview relates several instances of managerial and personnel challenges. She joined Lucent Technologies, the Bell Labs spin-off, in 1996 and retired in 2000. She reflects on 1970s-era gendered images of ‘electrical engineer’ and ‘computer scientist’. This material is based on work funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award B2014-07 “Tripling Women’s Participation in Computing (1965-1985).”Item Oral history interview with Mary Holt(Charles Babbage Institute, 2015-12-22) Holt, MaryMary Holt graduated as a math major from Mount St. Joseph College, an all-women school in Cincinnati Ohio, then received a master’s in information science in 1970 from the University of Chicago. There many of her classmates were from Bell Labs; she herself took a position at Bell Labs Naperville IL facility. She describes her engagement with issues of inequality in the workplace and opportunity for women. She describes an important model in the Urban Minorities workshops, started by AT&T Bell Labs management to address racism, and her role in starting the influential Men and Women in the Work Environment workshops. She describes changes in Bell Labs’ company culture, through her departure in 1978 for Illinois Bell. She took a second master’s degree in Social and Organizational Psychology from the University of Chicago and returned to work in AT&T Corporation’s human relations, then took up an external career with ARC International, a training and consulting firm based in Colorado. This material is based on work funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award B2014-07 “Tripling Women’s Participation in Computing (1965-1985).”