I found a very interesting article about a group of women, who were call a computer because they calculated the trajectories for weapons. Their calculations were then passed out to soldiers and planes in the war.
These women worked long hours and some even went on to program the ENIAC (general-purpose computers)
See Smart women rocked the world.
To Read the full article
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-02-08/tech/women.rosies.math_1_women-computers-white-collar-women-first-computer-programmers?_s=PM:TECH
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