Gender Stereotypes In Hidden Figures

In the film, “Hidden Figures” , it mainly focuses on three women who were not appreciated or looked at because of their gender and skin color, this overall made a big impact as to them becoming stronger and fighting for respect. This led to a fight for equality and being persistence which in the end led to them being successful.
The film’s main protagonists are Katherine Goble played by actress/singer Taraji P. Henson, Dorothy Vaughan played by actress/author Octavia Spencer and Mary Jackson played by singer/actress Janelle Monae. In the movie it starts off with young Katherine Goble teaching high schoolers how to solve a complicated math problem. This was a way of foreshadowing something important with young Katherine and how it would imply

At the court hearing , she explains to the judge that of all people he should know what it means to be the first. Mary Jackson says, “ I plan on being an engineer at NASA but I can’t do that without taking those classes at that all white high school. And I can’t change the color of my skin, so I have no choice of being the first, but I can’t do that without you sir.” and “ Out of all these cases you hear today, which one will matter the most a hundred years from now? Which one is gonna make you the first?” this leads to her going to those classes where she is met with another minor challenge. At the start of the class, it is an all male class with only white people, the teacher says, “The curriculum isn’t designed to teach a woman.” this results in Mary Jackson giving one of her witty remarks saying, “ Well I imagine it’s the same as teaching a man.” this silences the teacher, and Jackson just takes her seat, proud of what she had done and will be doing. Dorothy Vaughan was the one that was persistence since the very beginning, she kept insisting on being changed to a supervisor since she was basically doing the work of a supervisor, it took a very long time but towards the climax of the film she is named as supervisor. This would not have happened if she didn’t fill out a form to be supervisor, if she didn’t keep telling Miss Mitchell that