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Researching the untold story of Canada’s keypunch girls

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Oct 18, 2018
Last summer, the Canada Science and Technology Museum offered up access to its collection so that researcher Jennifer Thivierge could study “keypunch girls” — the women who punched holes in data cards and fed them into machines or tabulators, starting in the 1950s. The University of Ottawa’s Gazette writes about her findings, and what they say about gender discrimination within the field of computer science.

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