Around the same time that Dorothy Johnson Vaughan, Mary Robinson, and Katherine Johnson were working at NASA, she became one of the first woman programmers in Canada. As an American Black woman marrying a white man in the 1960s, they had to move to Toronto. There, they could legally marry and live together... As long as they bought a house, and to afford that, they both needed jobs. Her son tells her story best.
It was simply impossible for a young black woman to come in the 99th percentile on a test designed to measure aptitude for computer programming.
Of course a black woman doesn’t have the aptitude for computer programmers 🙄 Glad Arlene ignored those racist pricks and continued to be great! 😊
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Around the same time that Dorothy Johnson Vaughan, Mary Robinson, and Katherine Johnson were working at NASA, she became one of the first woman programmers in Canada. As an American Black woman marrying a white man in the 1960s, they had to move to Toronto. There, they could legally marry and live together... As long as they bought a house, and to afford that, they both needed jobs. Her son tells her story best.
Wow what an amazing story @abbeyperini! 😊