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Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt intertwines two historical narratives: NASA space exploration and the women at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Both these stories started with World War II, but with the end of that war, the efforts transitioned to scientific missions.
In the beginning women could not be engineers, but they could be computers – women who manually performed the complex calculations required by male engineers. As bad as this discrimination might sound today, it was a great opportunity for women in the 40s and 50s when many engineering schools didn't even accept women anyway.
These were rigorous technical jobs, sometimes given to women who showed only promise and interest, sometimes right out of high school. Their success was what we might expect today, but would have shocked the people of their generation who didn't expect women to work, and if they did, the career choices were nurse, teacher, and secretary, not planning interplanetary missions.
Aside from all working on space exploration, the women were from different races, and some married, some divorced, some had children, some didn't. As today, this history shows that gender tells little about a person.
This is a wonderful history of technical women and NASA.
For more see: http://1book42day.blogspot.com/2016/09/rise-of-rocket-girls-by-nathalia-holt.html
In the beginning women could not be engineers, but they could be computers – women who manually performed the complex calculations required by male engineers. As bad as this discrimination might sound today, it was a great opportunity for women in the 40s and 50s when many engineering schools didn't even accept women anyway.
These were rigorous technical jobs, sometimes given to women who showed only promise and interest, sometimes right out of high school. Their success was what we might expect today, but would have shocked the people of their generation who didn't expect women to work, and if they did, the career choices were nurse, teacher, and secretary, not planning interplanetary missions.
Aside from all working on space exploration, the women were from different races, and some married, some divorced, some had children, some didn't. As today, this history shows that gender tells little about a person.
This is a wonderful history of technical women and NASA.
For more see: http://1book42day.blogspot.com/2016/09/rise-of-rocket-girls-by-nathalia-holt.html