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Awe inspiring and inspirational
Excellent. I am a female engineer and I recall the day I realized in a class of 250 statics students that I was the ONLY female, in 1991. I left class in tears because no one had warned me that I could literally be the only girl in the entire engineering program entering that year. i had to walk all the way across the engineering building to the only ladies restroom in that building when I needed to go. I went to my advisor, who was a nice German man, but very linear. He asked me if I had a problem with the lecture or the material. I was sobbing and answering of course not. and he told me to run along now and it would all turn out fine. Today I work for a major aerospace engineering company and it is indeed all fine...but I never went through even a fraction of what these ladies faced in the initial days of the space program. I am forever in their debt. I will forever respect ALL of the women of color and those who were not of color, because without them paving the way, today I would still be unable to often be the only female engineer in the room. Luckily, I'm not ALWAYS the only female engineer in the room. I pray this movie will inspire the next generation of lady engineers because this society is in dire need of our technical voices at this time.
April 2017 · Movies and TV · verified purchase