Summary Of 'Hidden Figures' By Margot L Shetterly

“Hidden Figures” by Margot L. Shetterly is a story about the problems African American women encountered at National Advisory Committee Aeronautic or NACA. In particular, Dorothy Vaughan and the challenges she endured not only as a woman but also as an African American woman in a world normally dominated by men. At NACA, the engineers, all men, had the help of others to do their job efficiently mostly women to serve as a type of human calculator although it was thought of as the female brain was not capable of rigorous mind work. Black women were only considered for an upper management position after the white woman who is after the “lower-level males” (11). Dorothy graduated top of her college class, however, it did not matter, and it took