The whole point of the book being to shed light on deserving women forgotten by history, Hidden Figures does too good a job and ends up reading like the prologue to several more in-depth biographies. I am glad I read their stories, but man is the intersection of misogyny and racism hard to take, even while Shetterly does an admirable job of framing it as yet another obstacle each of the formidable women overcomes instead of an insurmountable barrier. She does this while illustrating that […]