I would like to suggest the documentary Top Secret Rosies, which is available through APT (American Public Television, Inc). This is a subject that is important to me as a female computer programmer. I learned my first of over a dozen computer languages in 1978. Every computer language I learned, whether in a class of from a book for work,
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Also in my first real job, I was the ONLY woman that had a technical job in the whole office. All the other women were secretaries or office managers.
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I always like reading about women doing things that they aren't supposed to be good at. I am not sure where that stereotype started. You would think that women doing math in their undies would be something to be applauded and celebrated.
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Bletchley Park is where it went on, and hundreds of people were sworn to secrecy during the war and kept that secret for decades afterwards. The hid the extent to which they had developed computers before anyone else did. Now of course there's a public museum there.
The 2001 film Enigma (starring Kate Winslet and co-produced by Mick Jagger!)) is set there.
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