In the same year, a biographical drama film with the same title was made, loosely based on the book.
Struggle and sacrifice of these three Kartinis took place from the 1930s through the 1960s when some viewed women as inferior to men.
I watched this move a few years ago and the most important thing that impressed me was that at that era, confronting so many discriminations, Katherine Johnson struggled hard and succeeded in eliminating at least the racial segregation in using coffee pots and batrooms at NASA!
These three Kartinis contributed largely to NASA's achievement to what it is today.
Thank you Mother Katherine Johnson, thank you Mother Dorothy Vaughan, and thank you Mother Mary Jackson!
Their Superiorities: Geniuses that even other NASA staffs, either male, white, or both, lacked of, and persistence in fighting for the equal rights of double-minorities.
2. Fumiko Minami
Turning to 1955:
Automatic electric rice cooker we use for granted at home everyday was first invented this year by a company in Japan. Ever since, million units have been sold worldwide. Rice cooker as we know today are not so different from initial models.
Practical electric rice cooker was invented by Yoshitada Minami.
Behind the success of a man, there's a woman who support him.
Long and tiresome experiments were conducted by Yoshitada with the assistance of his beloved wife, Fumiko Minami (or more correctly, by Fumiko with the assistance of his husband): "Begin Japanology - Rice Cookers".
