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.