This Sunday, Hidden Figures will vie for Best Picture at the 89th Annual Academy Awards. It’s a film that turns the spotlight not only on the forgotten African-American women who were integral to the “space race” in the early 1960s, but the gender and racial discrimination they faced on a daily basis. But interestingly enough, for all the work Hidden Figures does to educate moviegoers about the segregation black women endured while employed at NASA, the filmmakers largely omit the unfair salary practices experienced primarily by the film’s three main protagonists: Katherine Johnson (Taraji P.
The Discrimination Problem That ‘hidden Figures’ Barely Mentions
Time: Entertainment
Fri, 02/24/2017 - 12:48pm
Topics: best picture annual academy awards katherine johnson taraji p henson dorothy vaughan octavia spencer mary jackson janelle monaé vaughan african-american jim crow south langley research center hampton virginia it margot lee shetterly katherine johnson hidden figures a nasa johnson johnson katherine johnson vaughan jackson discrimination women film movie pay gender job racial money female treated work segregated male paid color engineers year black salary character
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