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Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
The following is a list of notable African-American women who have made contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.. An excerpt from a 1998 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education by Juliane Malveaux reads: "There are other reasons to be concerned about the paucity of African American women in science, especially as scientific occupations are among the ...
This is a list of African-American actors by alphabetical order. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and/or references showing the person is African American and a notable actor.
Chapple is the founder and director of Black Girls Do STEM (BGDS). Black Girls Do STEM was founded in 2018 in St. Louis, Missouri. Chapple's experience as a minority in her STEM classes and the workplace, led her to found BGDS while working on her masters in 2015. [1] In 2018, BDGS was officially starting up their first after-school classes.
Over time, women have shown up in STEM fields in larger numbers and gained greater footholds, but their overall strides and pay levels leave much to be desired (STEM fields remain two-thirds male).
It tells the story of African-American women mathematicians at NASA during the space race. 2017: The film adaptation, Hidden Figures, is nominated for best movie at the Academy Awards, and Katherine Johnson makes an appearance at the ceremony. [32] 2020: The updated website Mathematicians of the African Diaspora debuts in October.
There has been a decline in women of all races in computing in the United States; the representation of Black women in the field has continued to be lower than that of white female peers. For example, in 1985 when the number of women in computing was at a high, 77% of the related degrees were earned by White women, while fewer than 8% were ...
There has been no change in the share of Black workers in STEM jobs since 2016. The gap in STEM workforce representation is especially large for Hispanic adults. Hispanic workers make up 17% of ...