Timeline for Were staff at Bletchley Park predominantly male?
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| Feb 12, 2015 at 15:29 | comment | added | tcrosley | @Clockwork-Muse The article doesn't break this down. Just like in a hospital, you are going to have some doctors, lots of nurses, and some candy stripers. The article does say "Women undertook all roles". Intercepting enemy codes via shortwave, couriers, codebreakers, clerical work, Bombe and Colossus operators, cooks, cleaners, maintenance and transportation staff. The article mentions women being recruited via the crossword puzzle ad; clearly the scene in the movie (one woman taking the test in a room otherwise full of men) was a fabrication of the screenwriter for dramatic effect. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 12:11 | comment | added | Clockwork-Muse | ...yes, but doing what? The majority of positions in any field are usually low paying, low skill jobs. Just because you have a small army of candy-striper female nurses in a hospital, it doesn't mean the surgeon is a woman too. So what were their jobs, how many were actually employed as active codebreakers or in cryptanalysis, and not just in simple data entry? | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 0:58 | history | answered | tcrosley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |