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erpowers

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4. Amazing and Sad

Reply to CousinIT (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 27, 2017, 11:57 PM

Oct 2017

It is amazing that women played such a large role in the history of World War II and science. It is so sad that so many seem to have, for years, tried to hide the contributions of women in science. It is crazy how certain people try to claim that women are not capable of working in the tech world and then you find out that women once dominated things like computer programming because those in charge believed the work was too menial for men. Once the work gained more prestige then women were pushed aside and had their stories hidden.

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Code Girls The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II [View all] niyad Oct 2017 OP

Bletchley Park.... American Style usaf-vet Oct 2017 #1

your father certainly had a dangerous job. thank you for sharing this information with us. niyad Oct 2017 #7

So we had Rosie the Riveter, Navajo Code Talkers and now the ladies of code breakers. DK504 Oct 2017 #2

Don't forget the women of ENIAC. CousinIT Oct 2017 #3

Amazing and Sad erpowers Oct 2017 #4

Exactly. Women mathematicians were the first computers and programmers CousinIT Oct 2017 #5

Ada Lovelace, Gladys Hopper, Hedy Lamarr. . . . .and the list goes on, and on. . . niyad Oct 2017 #9

thank you for posting this. niyad Oct 2017 #8

DONE. CousinIT Oct 2017 #12

not to mention, SACRED! niyad Oct 2017 #11

There is a great PBS series called "The Bletchley Circle" which is about smirkymonkey Oct 2017 #6

. . . . niyad Oct 2017 #10