Margot Lee Shetterly Quotes
How do we fill the need for technology workers, people who have computer skills and math and science skills? How do we get a more diverse science workforce? These are all issues - I would look at these documents that were from the '50s and '60s and '70s, and you'd swear they were written two weeks ago because the issues are the same.
Shetterly, Margot Lee. Interview with David Barr Kirtley. "Geek's Guide to the Galaxy: Hidden Figures Author Margot Lee Shetterly." Wired, 10 Feb. 2017.
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This was a virtually unheard of idea at the time.
The recent FBI directors have had a difficult legacy to cope with. In the 1930s throughs the 1960s, the FBI (under J. Edgar Hoover), worked very closely with Southern, Racist, Law enforcement agencies who were constantly covering up and often participating in assaults and lynching of Blacks. Hoover, despite the fact that he was a closet gay, projected a very masculine FBI image and would not have female agents. Even in the Civil Rights movement local FBI offices were working closely with Southern law enforcement to suppress the Civil Rights demonstrations. Nationally, the FBI was not only illegally surveilling Martin Luther King, but Hoover who despised King actually had agents try and blackmail him and pressure him into committing suicide. So the legacy was not good for hiring women of Blacks and Jews, Hispanics, Asians and other minorities as well. Even when Comey made this statement, he was dealing with a group of highly conservative and racist FBI agents who were illegally leaking information that would help to swing the Presidential election to Donald Trump, who was opposed by most women and almost all blacks. So Comey had to persuade new recruits to enter the Bureau despite the legacy and existing component that would not be very comfortable for them. At the same time, the educational qualifications for the FBI were very high (unlike most local and stat law enforcement agencies). Most people who could meet them, could easily qualify for other jobs that paid more than the FBI so it took a good bit of desire and commitment to get anyone to join.
Margot Lee Shetterly is an American non-fiction writer who has also worked in investment banking and media startups. Her first book, Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race (2016), is about African-American women mathematicians working at NASA who were instrumental to the success of the United States space program. She sold the movie rights while still working on the book, and it was adapted as a feature film of the same name, Hidden Figures (2016). For several years Shetterly and her husband lived and worked in Mexico, where they founded and published Inside Mexico, a magazine directed to English-speaking expats.
