Why Can T I Go To The Meetings?
A Place at the Table
“Why can’t I go to the meetings?” Kathrine asked the engineers.
“Girls don’t go to the meetings,” her colleague said.
“I can not do my work effectively if I do not have all of the data and all of the information as soon as it’s available. I need to be in that room hearing what you hear now is that against the law?” she asked.
Of course, it wasn’t a law but it also wasn't personal it was just protocol, it was just the way things had always been done. The no-woman rule was a practice but not policy. The male colleagues decided whether a woman was permitted to go to a meeting if she was promoted, even if she was to get a raise. The women at Langley space center learned how to work with the men. They needed to be polite, but not so polite that they seemed spineless. For the most part, men did the actual work, they went to meetings and knew classified information. The women were computers they were the ones who calculated trajectories and the deluge of data from the wind tunnels and other experiments. …show more content…
Kathrine knew there was no protocol for women attending. But in her mind she realized she could change that, she could be the first ever woman to go to a Pentagon briefing. Kathrine knew all the rules at Langley but she also realized that they were possible to break and defy real easy.
After all, she did help get rid of the segregated bathroom rule with Mr. Al Harrison’s
“Why can’t I go to the meetings?” Kathrine asked the engineers.
“Girls don’t go to the meetings,” her colleague said.
“I can not do my work effectively if I do not have all of the data and all of the information as soon as it’s available. I need to be in that room hearing what you hear now is that against the law?” she asked.
Of course, it wasn’t a law but it also wasn't personal it was just protocol, it was just the way things had always been done. The no-woman rule was a practice but not policy. The male colleagues decided whether a woman was permitted to go to a meeting if she was promoted, even if she was to get a raise. The women at Langley space center learned how to work with the men. They needed to be polite, but not so polite that they seemed spineless. For the most part, men did the actual work, they went to meetings and knew classified information. The women were computers they were the ones who calculated trajectories and the deluge of data from the wind tunnels and other experiments. …show more content…
Kathrine knew there was no protocol for women attending. But in her mind she realized she could change that, she could be the first ever woman to go to a Pentagon briefing. Kathrine knew all the rules at Langley but she also realized that they were possible to break and defy real easy.
After all, she did help get rid of the segregated bathroom rule with Mr. Al Harrison’s