Read the excerpt from Hidden Figures. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly. Copyright (c) 2016 by Margot Lee Shetterly. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.Some women did indeed spend their days in rote service to the day’s task, plotting data with blithe indifference, routing torrents of numbers as nonchalantly as the calculating machines they cradled. But the average level of interest in the work among female employees was no lower than for their male counterparts, the "inveterate wind tunnel jockeys” and the mediocre "can’t-hack-it engineers” who managed to carve out a comfortable place for themselves in the bureaucracy despite modest talents or ambition.Read Anita’s paraphrase of the excerpt.Some women did perform their tasks in a mechanical, indifferent manner, but they were no more likely than men to do so.... from Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly. Copyright (c) 2016 by Margot Lee Shetterly. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.