![]() This book needs to be mandatory reading, for everyone, not just girls/young women, as a way to inspire, remind us that we still have a long way to go, that you need to look beyond what you are doing right now and think about how to innovate and stay relevant and the value of diversity in successful projects and organizations. But more importantly have started my search for meaningful ways to get involved with young women and STEM. Some more amazing women mathematicians.Īnd while a day or two may pass that I don't use algebra (why? no 'exes' for me to solve for here, hehe), I did add this fun Facebook page (based on an author) to my feed - The Calculus Diaries. I'm looking forward to Shetterly's next book and I am hoping that her Human Computer Project provides some hints. Here are some quick related reads, if you can't dive into the book right now, stand sticky theater floors or are craving more of this phenomenal story. Hidden Figures tells the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African American women who blazed the trail for others to follow in the fields of mathematics and engineering at NASA. ![]() It felt foreign or out place in a sentence but kept bringing me back to the core of the story. Book Review: Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly. How the word 'computers', originally referred to people, women, doing math, long hand.not machines.So much of this resonates with advice I still hear, give and take today, albeit I am not comparing myself to women in this book. Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the space race, this book follows the interwoven accounts of. The lessons gleans about being persistent, taking the high road, pushing and asking to be at the table, truly leaning in and power of being a life long learner. The conviction and vision of these black women, not only for themselves and family but for their community.Rather than rehash, what has continued to rattle around in mind from this nonfiction work is: The first one being that I prefer to read the book before seeing the movie (if ever) and two so many 'goings on' I won't be getting into in this post that warrant enthusiasm/engagement/appreciation/respect for women, minority, science, women in science and on and on.Įssentially, I could sum this is up as Wow. Seems like a timely book to read and review for many reasons. Our Reading Guide for Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly includes Book Club Discussion Questions, Book Reviews, Plot Summary-Synopsis and Author Bio. (Sept.Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly A star-studded feature film based on Shetterly's book is due out in late 2016. ![]() Exploring the intimate relationships among blackness, womanhood, and 20th-century American technological development, Shetterly crafts a narrative that is crucial to understanding subsequent movements for civil rights. ![]() Shetterly collects much of her material directly from those who were there, using personal anecdotes to illuminate the larger forces at play. (This book was reviewed digitally.) Blandly inspirational fare made to evoke equally shrink-wrapped responses. She celebrates the skills of mathematicians such as Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Hoover, whose brilliant work eventually earned them slow advancement but never equal footing. Figures in the pictures are mostly dark-skinned. Shetterly writes of these women as core contributors to American success in the midst of a cultural "collision between race, gender, science, and war," teasing out how the personal and professional are intimately related. It’s a story of struggle and willpower, but not of individual glory. The first women NACA brought on took advantage of a WWII opportunity to work in a segregated section of Langley, doing the calculations necessary to support the projects of white male engineers. Hidden Figures is not that kind of film: It’s a story of brilliance, but not of ego. Shetterly, founder of the Human Computer Project, passionately brings to light the important and little-known story of the black women mathematicians hired to work as computers at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in Hampton, Va., part of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA's precursor).
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