没时间翻译，先转一下。下面一段是Smithsonian杂志的一小段节选。想不到那时JP L就有华裔女做supervior。

You say that women at NASA'S Jet Prepulsion Lab weren’t called “engineers” until 1970. 

Many people, men and women, worked as “computers,” 

but the women were called “computresses.” They hated 

it. So they called themselves Helen's Girls, after one very influential supervisor, Helen Ling, who did an incredible job bringing women into NASA and into the lab. And then of course they also called themselves “the sisters” because they were this really close group that supported one another. 



http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=1327