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In reply to the discussion: Women in science they mysteriously don't teach you about [View all]bhikkhu
(10,714 posts)24. My mom was a programmer with Honeywell
back in the bad old days of punchcards (I remember as a kid having piles of them around the house). Then she went on to work for the state helping build the programs and algorithms to computerize their retirement system - this while raising four kids.
She didn't have to be famous to impress me, and no one in my family ever believed for a minute the old saw about women being inferior in math and science.
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Well, hell, that's a vanishing population. I've known "computer scientists" who don't know Knuth
Recursion
May 2014
#4
Cosmos has been doing a nice job of highlighting some of the overlooked women in science.
NutmegYankee
May 2014
#9
I have a science curriculum I developed on History of Science that includes women
kmlisle
May 2014
#14
Don't be dismayed. Today, the males aren't taught about, either. Too many "facts" to be "memorized."
WinkyDink
May 2014
#18
When I was a kid mom went to the library with me and told me I would learn to read about
toby jo
May 2014
#28
I would have thought that these days, she is more well known for her scientific contributions
cemaphonic
May 2014
#52