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English, 05.12.2019 01:31, eduardo60

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part a

which statement is a main idea of “dorothy vaughn biography”?

dorothy makes a difference by speaking up for fair salaries and opportunities for women who work at naca.

although she prefers teaching, dorothy leaves her job as an educator to work at naca and in the war effort.

dorothy is most known for working with other women at naca to write instruction manuals for using machinery.

because of her abilities, engineers choose to work with dorothy rather than other naca mathematicians.

part b

which quotation from the text best supports the answer to part a?

“…she collaborated with other well-known (white) computers like vera huckel and sara bullock on projects such as compiling a handbook for algebraic methods for calculating machines.”

“…leaving her position as the math teacher at robert russa moton high school in farmville, va to take what she believed would be a temporary war job.”

“vaughan was a steadfast advocate for the women of west computing, and even intervened on behalf of white computers in other groups who deserved promotions or pay raises.”

“engineers valued her recommendations as to the best "girls" for a particular project, and for challenging assignments they often requested that she personally handle the work."

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