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It wasn’t only women. Not cool totally cut out a major group of people who contributed to such a milestone.
by imwillofficial 4y ago
It wasn’t only women. Not cool totally cut out a major group of people who contributed to such a milestone.
- alar44 4y agoI love the fact that this so so dear to you that you feel you must comment but fail to mention who you think should be included.
- imwillofficial 4y agoAn entire gender group that contributed.
- alar44 4y agoWhich one?
- imwillofficial 4y agoMen, are you saying no men contributed to calculations?
- rascul 4y agoIt may not have been only women, but > In 1935, the first group of female human computers were hired. Before electronic computers, all mathematical equations and computations would be done by hand by people, often known as human computers. With the advent of World War II, many male employees at NACA left to fight overseas. More and more women were needed to fill their roles, and soon African American women were hired to help with the shortfall. > These African American women were sent to a segregated computing section known as the West Area Computing Unit, which was the center of the 2016 movie Hidden Figures. In April 1942, a memo was passed around stating that, “The engineers admit themselves that the girl computers do the work more rapidly and accurately than they could.” The women computers were becoming increasingly more valuable and doing incredible work along the way. https://www.womenshistory.org/exhibits/women-nasa https://www.womenshistory.org/exhibits/women-nasa