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Hidden Figures author Margot Lee Shetterly on reframing the stories we tell

ReThinking

CHAPTER

The Disadvantages and Challenges of Women in Segregated Systems

The first barrier is, are you a good mathematician, and have you been trained to the point where you can perform in this workplace? In both cases, the answer was yes. These were women who were at the top of their classes in high school and in college. They got very, very good educations there. The raw material was there, and the training was there. There's an interesting thing, sort of the double-edged sword of how they came up through those segregated systems.

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