VILLAPAÑA, CRISSA DE CHAVEZ

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1. Write a summary of the movie.

 Hidden Figures is established in the 1960s, when women and colored people in
America were given the 'treatment.' This is especially true in countries like Virginia,
where the film takes place. Even so, three brilliant African-American women,
Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, served as the brains
behind NASA's launch of one of the greatest operations in history, the launch of
astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation's
faith. They broke down barriers of gender and race to inspire future generations to
dream big. From 1961 through 1963, three NASA mathematicians worked on Project
Mercury, the first human suborbital space flights, and the Apollo 11 mission to the
moon. These were the missions that helped America beat Russia in the space race.

2. Cite (3) instances in the movie that shows gender issues and how the main
characters of the movie address these gender issues?
 Humans were called computers. The space race was heating up in the 1950s.
NASA's progenitor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), had
been using human computers to free engineers from performing computations by
hand at the time. Decades before the digital age, people, both male and female, were
referred to as computers. In the new Space Age, NACA became NASA in 1958, and
the human computers turned to study and solve challenges related to space flight in
order to send a man into space.
 Programming paved the way to coding. IBM created Fortran in the 1950s as a
computer language for scientific and engineering purposes. At the same time as
having human computers, NASA was pushing toward automation for Project
Mercury. Many male and female computers made the switch to Fortran programming
to assist with the coding of these new machines. Vaughan was one of the original
programmers, opening the way for modern coders. Girls' programming is now widely
recognized and promoted as part of STEM education.
  NASA opened doors to aeronautic careers for women. The Langley Memorial
Aeronautical Laboratory began hiring African-American women as computer
programmers in the 1940s. Due to the loss of men during WWII and the necessity for
processing capacity, NACA and subsequently NASA were willing to consider women
for these positions. Being a computer opened opportunities and provided a new
professional route for women with doctorates who wanted to do something other than
teach.

3. How can you compare the gender issues in the movie to Philippine society today?
Explain.
 In Philippines there are also have a discrimination about gender quality Women have
not only been granted the right to vote, but they have also been allowed the right to be
paid less than males who perform the same amount of work. Abuse of women has
been going on for a long time, and it is still going on today. Anyone who is not
cisgender (identifies as the same sex that they were assigned at birth) is unlikely to be
protected against discrimination at work, school, or on the streets.