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Margaret Hamilton, NASA's lead developer for Apollo program, stands next to all the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the moon in 1969

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[-] Akulagr@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Similar to what happened with the first image of a black hole. The whole thing was somehow attributed to one lady in the press. Turns out, it was a whole team of scientists working together to achieve that.

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Et al of the world, assemble!

[-] Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

The problem isn't that the whole thing was attributed to one lady. The problem was how quickly people were to discredit her and minimize her role, something that was guaranteed to never be a problem if she were a man.

Funny how the credibility of male scientists and engineers are never questioned in posts like these, and yet becomes a hot topic when that person happens to be a woman.

[-] tal@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Funny how the credibility of male scientists and engineers are never questioned in posts like these

I haven't seen a comparable image for a guy or a girl prior to this one presenting a person as having written code when they actually just led the team that wrote the code.

I do recall Al Gore claiming that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet" when he was responsible for obtaining funding for Internet infrastructure and getting ripped pretty hard for that.

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