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minus-square👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 days agoHe had a female comms officer, why would a female yeoman (an NCO depicted as the captain’s PA) seem shocking in that context?
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-29 days agoBack then nearly all telephone operators were women. Clerical work was considered womens work. The first computers at NASA were programmed by women because typing was clerical and that was for women. A female comms officer was expected, because in real life they were already accepted in that work.
minus-squareOpenStars@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 days agoTbh I have no idea - it was decades before my time. But he did seem to have a problem with her, especially as a woman somehow, right? So that was just my guess as to why, whatever the in-universe explanation may have been.
He had a female comms officer, why would a female yeoman (an NCO depicted as the captain’s PA) seem shocking in that context?
Back then nearly all telephone operators were women.
Clerical work was considered womens work.
The first computers at NASA were programmed by women because typing was clerical and that was for women.
A female comms officer was expected, because in real life they were already accepted in that work.
Tbh I have no idea - it was decades before my time. But he did seem to have a problem with her, especially as a woman somehow, right? So that was just my guess as to why, whatever the in-universe explanation may have been.