Hilda Solis Quotes
We need women to go through apprentice programs. I've seen women who did, and who are now highly trained electricians and welders. These are jobs that women are capable of doing.
Solis, Hilda L. Remarks at the White House Forum on Women and the Economy, Washington, D.C., 6 Apr. 2012.
Many of the male mathematicians were already working for the military or defense industries or still in military service. The University Of Pennsylvania Moore School of Engineering was working on trying to design and build a programmable computer that was to be the ENIAC computer. This was one of the very early computer development projects and mathematicians were desired to write the programs to control the computers and make them do something. But at the time, ironically, male mathematicians and engineers, wanted to design and build the computers—all of the early computers were built in a laboratory by scientists and engineers not by workers in a factory. Those were the prestigious and “interesting” jobs. Doing the programming most men assumed would be uninteresting, scut work, and so this project, out of desperation, came up with the radical idea of using women. And so the first computer programmers were mostly women. The irony was that once it became clear how creative and exciting computer programming could be, and its critical importance, the men flooded into the field and a decade later almost everyone thought that computer programming was a man’s profession, and there was a very common bias that women would not make good programmers. However, the people (men) who thought that did not know that the first computer programmer was a woman—Ada Lovelace {641640} and the earliest programming pioneers in America were mostly women.
Commenting on the fact that fewer women are running for higher offices:
She had been appointed by President Truman to be the US Delegate to the First United Nations sessions where she had a major role in forming the organization to meet the needs of the United States (The veto in the Security Council for example). John Foster Dulles, our Secretary of State was publically totally against having any woman in that position and later would come to regard Mrs. Roosevelt as a great danger. See {585211} . Yet he admitted that she did a good job with the UN. She was 62 at the time, and while we do not consider that as very old any longer, there were very few people who would be active in politics at that age and certainly no women. She stayed active however until her death more than a decade later.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio
The CAA was the Civil Aeronautics Administration, the forerunner to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
He was very conservative in almost all things, but here and with poverty (see {638805}) he was far ahead of his time.
Hilda Lucia Solis is an American politician and a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for the 1st district. Solis previously served as the 25th United States Secretary of Labor from 2009 to 2013, as part of the administration of President Barack Obama. She is a member of the Democratic Party and served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2009, representing the 31st and 32nd congressional districts of California that include East Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley.
