Gender Stereotypes In Hidden Figures

The battle against discrimination, segregation, and inequalities over race, gender, origin, and religion has been fought for ages. The movie Hidden Figures depicts the lives of three women of color, Katherine Goble, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan in the Jim Crow South. Despite the prejudices against them, these women proves themselves to be capable and worthy of respect through their work, attitude, and discipline.
First, Katherine, Mary, Dorothy, and the women of the West Computing Group gained respect from their white colleagues through diligent and brilliant work. Katherine Goble was moved from the group of human computers at NASA to become the first colored woman in the Space Task Group. In the beginning, Katherine was disdained by her coworkers and lead researcher, Paul Stafford, for being a Negro woman. She was treated as a mere calculating tool, being uncredited, barred from attending meetings, and forced to walk half a mile to go to a colored ladies bathroom. Eventually, Katherine’s works and talent were recognised first by the director of the Space Task Group, Al Harrison, and later on by John Glenn and her other colleagues. Similarly, Dorothy Vaughan strive to become a computer programmer from being a human computer. Towards the end of the movie, Mrs. Mitchell, a white supervisor, addressed Dorothy as “Mrs. Vaughan,” indicating

Mary Jackson had the potential and desire to be an engineer in NASA. In order to do so, she had to attend an all white high school, to which her husband objected for he believed one “cannot apply for freedom.” However, she insisted there is “more than one way” to achieve her goal. Thus, she pled her case to the judge in a peaceful and dignified manner and won. Without appealing to violence and resistance, Mary won her fight against the barriers of racism and