'Code Girls' tells the captivating story of America's female World War II codebreakers
Oct 12, 2017
3 minutes
“Women’s work” has an unwritten definition: Long on hours, short on respect. Tedious, backbreaking and underpaid or not paid at all. Maids and factory workers, nurses and store clerks, homemakers and mothers.
Add another category to the list: Code breakers.
Before and during World War II, more than 10,000 American women secretly devoted their lives to breaking and creating the maddeningly complex codes used by the world’s military and diplomatic forces. Nothing less
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