watch the movie
Hidden Figures (2016)
Assignment Instructions: The goal of this paper is to provide you an opportunity to examine your feelings about women in the sciences, and how women are looked at and valued in a profession dominated by men. This could apply to women in sports as well. There was a time when many women were discouraged from stepping outside the society’s norms for them. This would have been the same for womens sports as well. The comparison is that in the sports world or the sciences women were not considered strong enough or smart enough.
This movie deals with three African American Women in the 1960s working for NASA:
What society norms had to be broken in order for Katherine Gobles, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan to succeed?
During this time in history would women have been treated differently if they were athletes and not mathematicians?
Were womens sports participation small in this time in history just like the field for women mathematicians during this time in history?
After you watch the movie: Take some time to reflect on the movie, and the feelings that it invoked, and write A REACTION PAPER (your thoughts, ideas, & feelings) that answers these questions:
**These question(s) must be answered in your reflection paper on the movie.
What is the movie Hidden Figures about?
What were the women called at the Langley Research Center?
What was the climate like during the 1961 race to put a man into space?
Who was Katherine Goble Johnson?
Who was Mary Jackson?
Who was Dorothy Vaughan?
What was Katherine Goble Johnsons strength?
What was Mary Jacksons strength?
What was Dorothy Vaughan’s strength?
What obstacles did Katherine, Mary, and Dorothy have to overcome despite them being women and African American in the white male-dominated culture?
How did head engineer Paul Stafford show Katherine Goble Johnson respect?
