The Times Higher Education Supplement, a leading publication of university rankings and news for higher education professionals, has chosen Assistant Professor of History Marie Hicks’s new book Programmed Inequality, for its prestigious “book of the week” slot. John Gilbey writes in his review that Programmed Inequality is “a sophisticated work of scholarship: detailed, insightful, deeply researched,” and “has a much wider relevance, too, which it would be unwise to understate. Discussing, as it does, the role of profoundly structural gender discrimination in the collapse of technical dominance by a formerly great power, this book makes very uncomfortable reading–on a number of levels.”

Read the full review and the interview with the author here: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/review-programmed-inequality-marie-hicks-mit-press