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At the outbreak of World War II, four scientists left their comfortable college teaching positions to work for the government. Three served in uniform, the fourth oversaw contracts for the Navy. Such dramatic changes in life styles during the period were common -- for men. But these established scientists were women, and each made significant contributions to a Navy embroiled in a modern, science-dependent war. Mary Sears, a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution planktonologist, headed the Hydrographic Office's Oceanographic Unit. Grace Hopper, a Yale-trained mathematician, went to the Bureau of Ships Computation Laboratory at Harvard where she worked on one of the first computers, churning out essential data for ordnance and other projects. Florence van Straten, a New York University chemist, served as an aerological engineer analyzing the use of weather in combat. Mina Rees was the chief technical aide to the applied mathematics panel of the National Defense Research Committee. This book firmly places the women within the context of their times. Deeply rooted in previously unexamined primary sources, the work helps readers understand the personal and professional experiences of women in the military and the attitudes they faced, and fully appreciate the educational and occupational barriers faced by women scientists in the 1930s and 1940s.The author focuses on their efforts during the war, but also discusses the women's skills and training, tells how they came to war work, and examines the contributions they made once there. She further considers how the war changed their lives, especially their professional lives, and how it affected their future careers. While other books havebeen written about women in the military, this is the first to focus on Navy women scientists.… (mais)
rhbouchard: Van Straten is featured in Improbable Warriors.
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Improbable Warriors is a comprehensive documentary profiling four highly-educated and motivated women whom proudly served "behind the scenes" in United States World War II campaign.
Dispelling myths that women were kept in the kitchen and subservient, Kathleen Broome Williams created a book that no only profiles the achievements of Mary Sears, Florence van Straten, Grace Murray Hopper, and Mina Spiegel Rees but illustrates the Department of the Navy changed (if only temporarily) established views on women's mental capacity and ability to contribute to the war effort.
These women were enlisted under the WAVES program or Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. These four pioneers only represented a number of females holding Masters or PhD degrees; however many more women served in more traditional positions, we need not only think of Rosie the Riveter.
My only complaint about the book is the the chapter profiling Grace Murray Hopper (pg 113-153). She was a computer scientist and like most other "Waves," served in a capacity outside of her formal training. The chapter however primarily explained the histrionics of Cdr. Howard H. Aiken and his "Algebra Machine" the Harvard Mark I computer. Granted, Hopper had much to do with the operation of the computer and running data, but I found a bulk of the chapter didn't mention Hopper for pages.
Now, if you happen across the USS Hopper or USNS Mary Sears, you will know they were named after two indispensable women of the highest caliber. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
On 30 July 1947, U.S. Navy women celebrated their fifth anniversary as Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Here, at least, is a beginning, a tale of four women, three in the U.S. Navy, whose motives and wartime accomplishments demonstrate what is possible when unusual opportunities are seized by an intelligent, hardheaded, and persistent few.
At the outbreak of World War II, four scientists left their comfortable college teaching positions to work for the government. Three served in uniform, the fourth oversaw contracts for the Navy. Such dramatic changes in life styles during the period were common -- for men. But these established scientists were women, and each made significant contributions to a Navy embroiled in a modern, science-dependent war. Mary Sears, a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution planktonologist, headed the Hydrographic Office's Oceanographic Unit. Grace Hopper, a Yale-trained mathematician, went to the Bureau of Ships Computation Laboratory at Harvard where she worked on one of the first computers, churning out essential data for ordnance and other projects. Florence van Straten, a New York University chemist, served as an aerological engineer analyzing the use of weather in combat. Mina Rees was the chief technical aide to the applied mathematics panel of the National Defense Research Committee. This book firmly places the women within the context of their times. Deeply rooted in previously unexamined primary sources, the work helps readers understand the personal and professional experiences of women in the military and the attitudes they faced, and fully appreciate the educational and occupational barriers faced by women scientists in the 1930s and 1940s.The author focuses on their efforts during the war, but also discusses the women's skills and training, tells how they came to war work, and examines the contributions they made once there. She further considers how the war changed their lives, especially their professional lives, and how it affected their future careers. While other books havebeen written about women in the military, this is the first to focus on Navy women scientists.
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Dispelling myths that women were kept in the kitchen and subservient, Kathleen Broome Williams created a book that no only profiles the achievements of Mary Sears, Florence van Straten, Grace Murray Hopper, and Mina Spiegel Rees but illustrates the Department of the Navy changed (if only temporarily) established views on women's mental capacity and ability to contribute to the war effort.
These women were enlisted under the WAVES program or Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. These four pioneers only represented a number of females holding Masters or PhD degrees; however many more women served in more traditional positions, we need not only think of Rosie the Riveter.
My only complaint about the book is the the chapter profiling Grace Murray Hopper (pg 113-153). She was a computer scientist and like most other "Waves," served in a capacity outside of her formal training. The chapter however primarily explained the histrionics of Cdr. Howard H. Aiken and his "Algebra Machine" the Harvard Mark I computer. Granted, Hopper had much to do with the operation of the computer and running data, but I found a bulk of the chapter didn't mention Hopper for pages.
Now, if you happen across the USS Hopper or USNS Mary Sears, you will know they were named after two indispensable women of the highest caliber. (