Mmastodon ScienceSpace first seen 7 h ago, last 44 min ago, peak #7

The needlework skills behind a career in tech

Original: everything i know about tech i owe it to the skills i learned from "women’s work": # sewing # patchwork # embroidery # b

A technologist is crediting her engineering career to the skills traditionally dismissed as 'women's work' — sewing, patchwork, embroidery and beading — and is urging that children be taught how these crafts underpinned NASA's achievements. She points to the history of female pioneers in aerospace, from the mathematicians and seamstresses who stitched spacesuits to the women 'computers' behind early rocketry, arguing that domestic crafts taught precision, pattern thinking and problem-solving that map directly onto technology work.

Why now: It reframes undervalued domestic skills as foundational to modern technology and NASA's history, striking a chord in ongoing debates about women's unrecognized contributions.

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• everything i know about tech i owe it to the skills i learned from "women’s work": # sewing # patchwork # embroidery # beading . let’s make sure the chitlins learn about how without women’s work there is no # NASA » NASA's Female Pioneers - Rocket Women From History You Should… · blogdiva · 105

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