Unconventional Woman in Spaceship Earth? Your thought....

I always thought this scene was from the 60s, not the 70s.

Check out these outfits flight attendants wore. I realize they're flight attendants, not lab workers, but still show attitudes towards professional outfits.

I think her outfit is very fashionable for the times, but it's more unlikely that a woman was in that job at all. In those days, a woman would be more likely to be in a low-level, secretarial job, than wearing a lab coat.
You'd be surprised. Companies were looking for any sort of technical ability and at least 2 women in my life were in higher positions than this. The first, my high school Algebra/Geometry teacher, was part of the team that built the first computer for the military in Rhode Island during WWII. Then when Univac I, the first computer for a business was built at GE in Louisville, she was on that team. The other was my cousin, who in the very early 60's, was hired by the Hotel Fremont in Las Vegas to be their chief computer programmer. At that time Fremont and The Mint were Vegas's 2 biggies.
 
I always noticed her too! I always thought it looked out of place, but merely because it was a "work setting." I however was not alive until 1988, so this thread has taught me that the work-wear idea was not really happening back then. She's my favorite person in the whole ride - smart and stylish! :rotfl:
 

Spoken like someone that didn't live as an adult in the late 60's, early 70's. This was the Disco era. This is what women wore back then. It is too late to turn back time and change that...it was what it was.

I know it wounds the sensitive to think that there ever was such a time, but it was there and it was voluntarily accepted by most young women. The whole purpose of that scene was to show how much has changed since those times and I think it does a pretty good job of displaying just that.

For young guys like me, at the time, it was marvelous.:worship::thumbsup2:hippie:
 
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I think her outfit is very fashionable for the times, but it's more unlikely that a woman was in that job at all. In those days, a woman would be more likely to be in a low-level, secretarial job, than wearing a lab coat.

Nope, per my post above, my mother managed a computer room like that. It was a data type situation, almost administrative by today's definition, but she was the boss. They would have to "run" jobs. You take off a reel, put another one, etc. etc. It would feed data into the master computer ala "Tron" :scared1:.

The original data was keypunched in, then the keypunch cards were run to put the data on the tape reel, then the tape reel runs on those computers to compile it all into the presentation of a bill, which is printed on a dot matrix type printer. Really basic. In those daya, computers were just data manipulators and the programming wasn't that big of a deal in everyday business, until you got into the IBM, GE/Space type stuff.

It was all highly sanitized - separate ceilings, floors and air movers. I only was allowed to visit and look through the windows.
 
You'd be surprised. Companies were looking for any sort of technical ability and at least 2 women in my life were in higher positions than this. The first, my high school Algebra/Geometry teacher, was part of the team that built the first computer for the military in Rhode Island during WWII. Then when Univac I, the first computer for a business was built at GE in Louisville, she was on that team. The other was my cousin, who in the very early 60's, was hired by the Hotel Fremont in Las Vegas to be their chief computer programmer. At that time Fremont and The Mint were Vegas's 2 biggies.

This. During the early 70's my grandmother worked at TI in Dallas with only a high school education. Of course, whenever I saw her in work clothes she was wearing polyester pants. But then, she was in her upper 40's at that time. If you really want to see how things have changed, there it is. Today, it wouldn't be anything to see a woman in her 40's wearing the same outfits a 20 y.o. would wear. Back then, though it had started to change, it was still pretty common that she would have been considered too old to wear things like that. But then again, there are more differences than just that. Unlike my grandmother, how many professional forty-something women today already have 6 grandkids?
 
I've always noticed her, but never really thought about the outfit as being out of place before. As the OP said, I think it's just to represent the style of the time - they made it overt so it was obvious which decade it was from, I suppose.

I have always enjoyed her boots though :thumbsup2
 
My favorite teacher EVER was in 2nd grad, around 1972, and she dressed like that every day!:flower3:
 
I was a kid in the early/mid 70's and I remember my teachers dressing the same way- very short minis worn with what we would now consider "go-go boots". It was just what many women wore during that era.

Oh, that's a perfect example! I totally agreed with sharadoc but since my mom was a hippie her way of dressing was a bit different, and I couldn't come up with a concrete example. But YES, flashing back to my 1st grade teacher in the mid 70s, and YES, that's exactly how she dressed.
 
I always thought this scene was from the 60s, not the 70s.

Check out these outfits flight attendants wore. I realize they're flight attendants, not lab workers, but still show attitudes towards professional outfits.

I think her outfit is very fashionable for the times, but it's more unlikely that a woman was in that job at all. In those days, a woman would be more likely to be in a low-level, secretarial job, than wearing a lab coat.

Duffy, totally OT, but I love your signature.:rotfl:
 
I know it wounds the sensitive to think that there ever was such a time, but it was there and it was voluntarily accepted by most young women. The whole purpose of that scene was to show how much has changed since those times and I think it does a pretty good job of displaying just that.

I'm not even sure it should be seen as a bad thing. My mom didn't wear the polyster or the exact styles, but she did wear minis (mainly before I was around...minis and active babies don't mix well) and she definitely had a couple pairs of tall boots, but when she talked about wearing those outfits, she felt strong, beautiful, and amazing. She didn't feel bad at all about it.

The boots also made her feel tall, LOL.
 
Nope, per my post above, my mother managed a computer room like that. It was a data type situation, almost administrative by today's definition, but she was the boss. They would have to "run" jobs. You take off a reel, put another one, etc. etc. It would feed data into the master computer ala "Tron" :scared1:.

The original data was keypunched in, then the keypunch cards were run to put the data on the tape reel, then the tape reel runs on those computers to compile it all into the presentation of a bill, which is printed on a dot matrix type printer. Really basic. In those daya, computers were just data manipulators and the programming wasn't that big of a deal in everyday business, until you got into the IBM, GE/Space type stuff.

It was all highly sanitized - separate ceilings, floors and air movers. I only was allowed to visit and look through the windows.
Pretty accurate and it brings back lots of memories. I carried boxes of cards to the submission window for a run. The card reader would get through a box and a half and then chew up a few. Back to the keypunches to recreate them.

Security wasn't universal in the 70s. I often helped out in the computing center until the age of coded locked doors and authorized personnel only came in around 1978.

Back to on topic, the style shown in Disney was definitely worn by the women in the computing centre during the 70s. Showing it is not demeaning but accurate. My DW always comments in wearing that style to work during that time when we go past that scene.
 
I was a kid in the early/mid 70's and I remember my teachers dressing the same way- very short minis worn with what we would now consider "go-go boots". It was just what many women wore during that era.

Wow! You just brought back a load of grade school memories of the way my teachers dressed. :laughing:
 
What I notice is that her legs don't seem to fit her body.

They look way too "overscale" like they came off a male figure.

Just my thoughts.
 
My DD7 loves her outfit. So I took a photo of her, not even thinking it would be posted:

LabGirl.jpg
 
That's pretty much the type of outfit that my wife wore on our honeymoon and that was in 1972. Very much in style at the time.
 

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