needed an for stellaromputers data in his lab and he hired only women, including his own maid, wilhelmina fleming. he didn't do this because of some desire to nurture women in his life. he did it because he had a lot of data to process and he needed to employ twice as many workers to code through it all. women were paid half as much so he could get more for his buck. the harvard computers, who are known to history as pickering's maid, -- his discovered the horse head constellation. talentede prodigiously at what they did but their wages to unskillednt workers, between $.25 and $.50 an hour, which is more than a factory worker but less than a clerical worker. women were not the intelligent workers of synthetic men, and were desk workers earning their way for their skills and numbers. common in have been the 19th century, but things change in wartime. the major wars have always affected gender and work. the american civil war brought battlefield widows into office work and the first and second world wars ushered thousands of most into the workplace, famously as mechanics but also as typists, clerks

stellar spectrum data in his harvard lab, and he hired only women, including his own maid, wilhelmina fleming. and he didn't do this because of some particular interest in the female mind, or some desire to nurture women in his life. he did it because he had a lot of data to process and he needed to employ twice as many workers to comb through it all. women were paid half as much so he could get more for his buck. but the harvard computers, who are unfortunately known to history as pickering's harem, -- and his maid discovered the horsehead nebula. in her colleague, who has one of the coolest names in the history of science, could classify at a rate of three stars per minute. they mapped the cosmos. but their were equivalent to the wages of unskilled workers, between $.25 and $.50 an hour, which is more than a factory worker but less than a clerical worker. as the historian navin allen greer writes, women like these were not the intelligent workers of sympathetic men, they were werers, desk laborers, who earning their way for their skills at numbers. that might have been common in the 19th ce