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  1. Feb 28, 2017 · Based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly, it aims to showcase what can be done in the face of adversity, when sexism and racism tries to put you in a box and...

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  2. Sep 8, 2016 · “These women were both ordinary and they were extraordinary,” says Margot Lee Shetterly. Her new book Hidden Figures shines light on the inner details of these women’s lives and...

  3. Jan 24, 2017 · In the late 19th and early 20thcentury, female “computers” at Harvard University analyzed star photos to learn more about their basic properties. These women made discoveries still fundamental ...

  4. Feb 7, 2017 · The diversity of Nasa’s workforce in 1940s Virginia is uncovered in a new book by Margot Lee Shetterly. She recalls how a visit to her home town led to a revelation

  5. Sep 7, 2016 · Author Margot Lee Shetterly. “The title of this book is something of a misnomer,” Shetterly noted. “The history that came together in these pages wasn’t so much hidden, but unseen — fragments patiently biding their time in footnotes, family anecdotes and musty folders before returning to view.”

  6. Margot Lee Shetterly (born June 30, 1969) is an American nonfiction writer who has also worked in investment banking and media startups. Her first book, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race (2016), is about African-American women mathematicians working at NASA who were ...

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  8. Oct 25, 2016 · Shetterly: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden — each of them represented a certain slice of the narrative in terms of the development of women in the workplace...

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