This is not speculation designed to make her story more dramatic.

It is a description of the actual institutional environment in which she worked, and it is the reason why the documentary record of her specific contributions is incomplete.

A Woman In A Room Of Men

The classified nature of her most advanced work is one reason her contributions are difficult to trace in detail.

But it is not the only reason.

Gender operated as its own form of obscuring mechanism in the engineering world of the 1950s and 1960s.