The invisibility of women like her in the history of American aerospace is not primarily the result of conscious exclusion — though conscious exclusion existed.

It is primarily the result of institutional structures that treated women’s work as supportive rather than generative, as computational rather than creative, as execution rather than design.

Those structures have been documented and criticized extensively in the decades since the period she worked in.

She was inside those structures for thirty-one years, navigating them without becoming less than what she was.

After Lockheed — The Advocacy Years