Harvard Computers | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-13

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00:01:09 1 History
00:03:27 2 Notable members
00:03:37 2.1 Mary Anna Palmer Draper
00:05:29 2.2 Williamina Fleming
00:06:45 2.3 Antonia Maury
00:07:47 2.4 Anna Winlock
00:08:47 2.5 Annie Cannon
00:10:58 2.6 Henrietta Leavitt
00:13:23 3 See also



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The Harvard Observatory, under the direction of Edward Charles Pickering (1877 to 1919) had a number of women working as skilled workers to process astronomical data. Harvard was the first such institution to hire women to do this type of work. Among these women were Williamina Fleming, Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Florence Cushman and Antonia Maury. Although these women started primarily as calculators, they often rose to contribute to the astronomical field, and even publish in their own names. This staff came to be known as the Harvard Computers or, more derisively, as "Pickering's Harem".
This was an example of what has been identified as the "harem effect" in the history and sociology of science.