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[...] During the Manhattan Project, 640 women worked at Los Alamos — about 11 percent of the total workforce. Today, women comprise 32 percent of the Lab's workforce — 3,554 of 11,012 total employees. Women hold more than a quarter of management positions, and women are 22 percent of the professional R&D workforce.
[...] Take a look at that history via the following timeline, which highlights notable women at the Laboratory and their achievements, as well changes in federal legislation and the workplace that continue to make Los Alamos a great place for women to work.
[...] 1943: In the 1940s, a "computer" was a person — usually a woman — whose job it was to perform calculations by hand, sometimes with the aid of a mechanical calculator. Women with degrees in mathematics and the sciences often took jobs as computers because of discrimination in their own fields. As a consequence, many of the women who became computers were vastly overqualified for their positions. At Los Alamos, approximately 20 computers worked in the T-5 Computation group by the end of the summer of 1943.
Source: A short history of women at Los Alamos
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 26 2018, @04:46PM
Sounds about right - I remember the story, seems like it was probably before 9/11/01. Had that same thing happened after 9/11, it would have added drastically to the hysteria already caused by the anthrax scare, the beltway shooter, the Unpatriot act, etc ad nauseum. That was one crazy-assed 20 to 24 month period.