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Re:We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical int... by tropo on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @07:54PM (#12005726)
Grace Hopper might have rather been in charge of an aircraft carrier. Ada Lovelace might also have wanted to do other things.

Opportunities were limited for women. Don't assume that computing was the first choice career for those women.

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Re:We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical int... by dragonwriter on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @08:07PM (#12005777)
> Grace Hopper might have rather been in charge of an aircraft carrier. [...] Opportunities were limited for women.

Even had the Navy not had gender-restricted roles, the only reason Dr. Hopper got an exemption from physical requirements she did not meet was her strong background in math and physics that qualified her to fill the need for the computation project.

Gender bias aside, she would never have gotten to command an aircraft carrier.

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