Dr. Christine Darden
10 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Dr. Christine Darden · across every show →
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Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Workers must continuously adapt skills to avoid technological displacement
“Computers are coming in. They're going to replace these human computers who are very much slower. So she says, I think you better learn how to do Fortran so that you can actually run the computer and not be out of a job. And that's something that is happening …”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 negative
NASA placed male math grads in engineering and females in support
“Why is it that the men coming here with the same background I had, degrees in mathematics or applied mathematics, Were put in engineering sections and able to work on their own projects and write their own papers, and the females are put into computer sections…”
Jan 2, 2019
Dr. Darden went five years without promotion before NASA engineering transfer
“And I got transferred to an engineering section. I got a promotion because I hadn't had a promotion in five years. And in that riff list, I was actually being bumped by somebody hired at the same time who had gotten promoted twice.”
Jan 2, 2019
High school teacher, not Sputnik, inspired Dr. Darden's math career
“Well not necessarily the Sputnik. I happened to have a geometry teacher that just made me fall in love with geometry and math. And so that sort of sealed the deal that I wanted to go toward the math and physical sciences rather than biological sciences, and th…”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 positive
NASA evolved from few women engineers to having female center directors
“Well, by the time I left, we had seen far more women coming into the, coming to the system, and though we had had, in the intermediate times, we had had some female supervisors that had difficulty managing men who did not particularly like to work for women, b…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Visible role models are essential for inspiring students to pursue careers
“Well, you know, maybe I'm thinking that folks didn't realize that, that what black women were working on at the time, so they were work, we were working on some pretty important topics, and I think that's part of what is galvanizing, and as far as our schools,…”
Jan 2, 2019
Early-career professionals should proactively seek work rather than waiting
“Why don't you walk down that hall, and just kind of look at the reports, and see if you see one that interests you, and read it, and then go to the author, and say, I just read your report, and I'm really interested in this work, and I'd like to know so and so…”
Jan 2, 2019
NASA human computers solved equations without knowing their context or meaning
“I was in a support role, that the engineers would bring in equations. We were to solve the equations and give them the answers, and very often we didn't know what the equations were for in the first place, nor what the answers meant.”