Woman are goddess and a miracle. ‘Hidden Figures’ makes a very big impression and an inspirational movie for us. The movie addresses the issues of racial segregation which was reflected in the location of the West Area computing division where the women or blacks worked, about half a mile away from the rest of the Langley Research Centre. It also addresses gender discrimination and shows how these super women were able to juggle their family lives with their demanding jobs at NASA. ‘Hidden Figures’ is a powerful reminder of the destructive consequences of discrimination and segregation, but it also holds important lessons for women in tech about how to excel even under challenging circumstances in their lives.
Katherine G. Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan, the trio who worked at NASA's Langley Research Centre in Hampton as America raced against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR, to put a man into space. But the U.S. was so desperate to outpace the Soviet Union in space that NASA eagerly turned to one of the human computers whose expertise in analytic geometry would allow Glenn to successfully launch into orbit. She was assigned to a new job, only to find that she was the only black person in the room, while all of her co-workers were white. She has never been afraid or quarreled and continues her work.
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In one of the most powerful scenes in the movie, Mary Jackson needed permission from a judge to attend classes in an all-white school. Faced with gruesome odds at a time when being black and being a woman at the same time was a great disadvantage, she asked the judge, “Out of all the cases you are going to hear today, which one is going to make you the first?” No matter how frightening the challenge may seem, you should not be afraid to be the first. Only the first make it to the history books.
When Dorothy Vaughan learned that a new IBM computer had been installed on the base, she took it upon herself to learn how to use it. However, instead of keeping that knowledge to herself, she also got her colleagues to learn how to use it.
Women need to understand that to survive in the tech sector, they need to stick together, support your fellow woman and share ideas with one another, and also empower and encourage other women to develop technical skills.
When it comes to driving for success, gender should not matter. In the end, nobody sees efforts, they only thing that can make a difference is the end result of your efforts. Like Katherine Goble, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan and countless other women that have paved the way for greater equality in the workplace, you should not allow trivial matters deter you from achieving your goals, let the result of your hard work speak for you. Often, achieving success and equality requires the use of unconventional and forbidden strategies but they will pay off eventually as they did for these ladies.
There have been many revolutionists in the history of mankind who were tired of the way they and others like them were being treated, by speaking up, their conditions were improved. When Katherine spoke up on bathroom segregation at NASA, it was abolished. Like Katherine and other women who have paved way for others, you have to speak up on issues and challenges you face as women in tech, to pave way for others that would come after you.
Ultimately, ‘Hidden Figures’ reflects on the importance of determination, hard work and resilience, it is a message that clearly says, “Dear woman, you can be anything you want to be”.
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