The first computer programmers during WWII were women due to the draft and due to many men thinking doing the tedious work of ballistic calculations by hand was "women's work." The US government actively recruited women with exactly the same education background as Maggie Hope. You are too generous to say the author spent 5 mins on wiki as this wiki page on the human computer goes into detail about these early programmers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer
Here's a CNN article about this subject which was the focus of a recent documentary http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/02/08/women.rosies.math/index.html
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Date: 2013-02-08 02:38 am (UTC)Here's a CNN article about this subject which was the focus of a recent documentary http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/02/08/women.rosies.math/index.html