This important volume examines European perspectives on the historical relations that women have maintained with information and communication technologies (ICTs), since the telegraph. Features: describes how gendered networks have formed around ICT since the late 19th Century; reviews the gendered issues revealed by the conflict between the actress Ms Sylviac and the French telephone administration in 1904, or by 'feminine' blogs; examines how gender representations, age categories, and uses of ICT interact and are mutually formed in children's magazines; illuminates the participation of women in the early days of computing, through a case study on the Rothamsted Statistics Department; presents a comparative study of women in computing in France, Finland and the UK, revealing similar gender divisions within the ICT professions of these countries; discusses diversity interventions and the part that history could (and should) play to ensure women do not take second place in specific occupational sectors.

Connecting Gender, Women and ICT in Europe: A Long-Term Perspective
Valérie Schafer and Benjamin G. Thierry

Part I: Networks and Empowerment
Delphine Diaz and Regis Schlagdenhauffen

Telegraphy and the 'New Woman' in late Nineteenth Century Europe
Simone M. Müller

Airing the Differences: An Approach to the Role of Women in the Spanish Free Radio Movement (1976-2014)
José Emilio Pérez Martínez

From Marie-Claire Magazine's Authoritative Pedagogy to the Hellocoton Blog Platform's Knowledge Sharing: Between Gender Construction and Gender Appropriation
Alexie Geers

Part II: Gendered Representations
Delphine Diaz and Regis Schlagdenhauffen

The Sylviac Affair (1904-1910), or Joan of Arc vs. the 'Demoiselles du Téléphone'
Dominique Pinsolle

The Representational Intertwinement of Gender, Age and Uses of Information and Communication Technology: A Comparison Between German and French Preteen Magazines
Marion Dalibert and Simona De Iulio

Part III: ICT and professionalization
Delphine Diaz and Regis Schlagdenhauffen

From Computing Girls to Data Processors: Women Assistants in the Rothamsted Statistics Department
Giuditta Parolini

The Gendering of the Computing Field in Finland, France and the United Kingdom Between 1960 and 1990
Chantal Morley and Martina McDonnell

Breaking the 'Glass Slipper': What Diversity Interventions Can Learn from the Historical Evolution of Occupational Identity in ICT and Commercial Aviation
Karen Lee Ashcraft and Catherine Ashcraft

Gender-Technology Relations in the Various Ages of Information Societies
Delphine Gardey