Today the (male) NASA administrator, Bill Nelson, accepted Congressional Gold Medals from the (male) Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, on behalf of
Katherine Johnson,
Dr. Christine Darden,
Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson,
In recognition of all the women who served as computers, mathematicians, and engineers at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and NASA between the 1930s and the 1970s.
https://nucleardiner.wordpress.com/2024/09/18/hidden-figures/
@corlin are none of those women still alive?
@stueytheround @rpardee
Do you think the GOP in the House really wanted to give medals to Women? Much less women mathematicians and engineers?