{"id":6601,"date":"2022-08-07T06:37:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T04:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/07\/proving-ground-review-the-women-who-made-american-computing-great\/"},"modified":"2022-08-07T06:37:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T04:37:57","slug":"proving-ground-review-the-women-who-made-american-computing-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/07\/proving-ground-review-the-women-who-made-american-computing-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Proving Ground review: the women who made American computing great"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathy Kleiman\u2019s offers a valuable boost to our understanding of modern computers and their beginnings in wartime<\/p>\n

In 1942, the unthinkable happened. This \u201chelp wanted\u201d ad appeared in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin: \u201cLooking for Women Math Majors.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ad was placed by the US Army, which was hiring women to work at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, at the University of Pennsylvania. Kathleen McNulty was only 21, a brand new graduate of Chestnut Hill College, but she knew nothing like this had ever appeared outside the \u201cMale Help Wanted\u201d section of any newspaper before the US entered the second world war.<\/p>\n

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\nKathy Kleiman\u2019s offers a valuable boost to our understanding of modern computers and their beginnings in wartime
\nIn 1942, the unthinkable happened. This \u201chelp wanted\u201d ad appeared in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin: \u201cLooking for Women Math Majors.\u201d
\nThe ad was placed by the US Army, which was hiring women to work at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, at the University of Pennsylvania. Kathleen McNulty was only 21, a brand new graduate of Chestnut Hill College, but she knew nothing like this had ever appeared outside the \u201cMale Help Wanted\u201d section of any newspaper before the US entered the second world war. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kathy Kleiman\u2019s offers a valuable boost to our understanding of modern computers and their beginnings in wartime In 1942, the unthinkable happened. This \u201chelp wanted\u201d ad appeared in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin: \u201cLooking for Women Math Majors.\u201d The ad was placed by the US Army, which was hiring women to work at the Moore School …<\/p>\n

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