page_title: Women in Bletchley Park
section_title: Selected women
hierarchical_section_title: Women in Bletchley Park / Selected women
caption_attribution_description: English: A Colossus Mark 2 codebreaking computer being operated by Dorothy Du Boisson (left) and Elsie Booker (right), 1943
context_page_description: About 8,000 women worked in Bletchley Park, the central site for British cryptanalysts during World War II. Women constituted roughly 75% of the workforce there. While women were overwhelmingly under-represented in high-level work, such as cryptanalysis, they were employed in large numbers in important auxiliary work, such as: operating cryptographic machinery and communications machinery; translating of Axis documents; traffic analysis; clerical duties, and many more besides.
context_section_description: This section tells the stories of a few selected women who worked in Bletchley Park.
caption: A Colossus Mark 2 computer being operated by Dorothy Du Boisson (left) and Elsie Booker.
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