Mar Hicks is a historian of technology, gender and modern Europe, notable for their work on the history of women in computing.

Hicks wrote the 2017 book, Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing.

Prior to earning a Ph.D., Hicks worked at Harvard University as a UNIX system administrator.

Hicks's work focuses on issues of inequality in high tech, particularly gender discrimination in the computing industry.

[5][6][7][8][9] Hicks is known for drawing from this history when writing about contemporary gender issues in the computing industry.