Hidden Figures

In this post, I will discuss the movie that we saw in class: "Hidden Figures" directed by Theodore Melfi in 2016. 
 It's the second time I've seen Hidden Figures and I can say that it has become one of my favorite movies. 
The film tells the story of three African-American women who worked for NASA in the early 1960s, collaborating in an important space program. These brilliant women achieved incredible goals that seemed impossible because they were women and African-Americans.
What impresses me about these women is their intelligence, their strength, their perseverance and their struggle that allowed them to demonstrate that they were more than capable of being involved in areas that were considered suitable only for the masculine intellect, such as science, mathematics and engineering.
I can identify a little with those great women of that movie, not because of how brilliant they were, but because, despite being in the 21st century, in my career computer systems engineering, we are still very few women.
I would like more and more women to be encouraged to study science or engineering careers, to open up many more women to these areas and to dissolve the gaps between men and women in this type of careers and industry.
The recognition is double for these women because apart from their struggle to get involved in areas considered for men, they also had to fight against the segregation and racism of the time, they had to endure rudeness, injustice, underestimation.
From the first time I saw this movie these three women motivated me a lot, they made me believe that I can go far in my career despite all the adversities, they also made me believe that I can be the first one in something.

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