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A review by sage5357
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
4.0
I really enjoyed this book a lot. I thought it was well written and super well researched and I was BLOWN AWAY by the scope of the book — from the 1940s to the present!! Super cool. I love how this book came into being, too, with the author googling her child’s baby name and then finding an Eleanor Francis who worked at NASA back in the day. I love that so much.
A couple of the passages and anecdotes really stuck out to me and I’m going to nerd out about them here lol
“The engineers marveled at Helen’s ability. She worked quickly and accurately. Her knowledge of mathematics was exceptional, and if she had been a man applying for the job, she likely would have been hired as an engineer. This was true for many of the computers, whose education, frequently consisting of a bachelor of science degree, was identical to that of the young men being hired in engineering.” Page 118 — THAT. LAST. SENTENCE. THOUGH. GAAAAHHHHH. I feel like I’m that Anger gif from Inside Out, like for real. So many things in this book made me MAD, all of the goddamn sexism and firing a woman because she was pregnant/might get pregnant, and just...all of the bullshit that women still have to deal with in 2019. It makes me tired. We’ve come a long way but DAMN
A couple of the passages and anecdotes really stuck out to me and I’m going to nerd out about them here lol
“The engineers marveled at Helen’s ability. She worked quickly and accurately. Her knowledge of mathematics was exceptional, and if she had been a man applying for the job, she likely would have been hired as an engineer. This was true for many of the computers, whose education, frequently consisting of a bachelor of science degree, was identical to that of the young men being hired in engineering.” Page 118 — THAT. LAST. SENTENCE. THOUGH. GAAAAHHHHH. I feel like I’m that Anger gif from Inside Out, like for real. So many things in this book made me MAD, all of the goddamn sexism and firing a woman because she was pregnant/might get pregnant, and just...all of the bullshit that women still have to deal with in 2019. It makes me tired. We’ve come a long way but DAMN