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The movie is adapted from a nonfiction novel, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly. About one week ago, I saw the movie Hidden Figures, which crystallized the issue for me and underscored why the recent women’s march on Washington resonated so powerfully. For women of color in the Jim Crow era, it was double jeopardy dealing with gender and race in the work place. In the 1960s, women working in the science, technology, engineering and math fields had the particularly daunting and unpleasant task of proving their mettle in what were sometimes downright hostile working environments. Although much progress has been made since the industrial revolution and the civil rights era, some things remain unchanged. In America, we continue to wrestle with various forms of ethnic and gender discrimination, with potentially devastating consequences for our society and institutions. It became self-evident that in spite of decades of progress in breaking down barriers for disadvantaged groups, we were still far from an egalitarian society. Taken within the context of the gross inequities against marginalized groups - immigrants, individuals with disabilities, people from minority ethnic groups - the rallying cry for justice was a civil rights era message redux.

As I listened to the massive crowds chanting various slogans in repudiation of perceived inequities, one message rose above the din of the streets - it was time to dismantle the structural impediments to women’s rights in this country and around the world.

21, 2017, millions of women around the globe marched in solidarity with women in the United States to protest against various forms of social injustices and misogyny they experience on a routine basis.